"God is Our Light"

25 Mar 09
Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Lent

God is Our Light
Isaiah 60:15-22

The world is in a terrible mess: wars: indiscriminate terrorist bombings, religious tensions, ethnic conflicts, global warming, HIV/AIDS pandemic, starvation and widespread poverty. As I write this devotion, the worldwide financial crisis, fuelled by human greed and acquisitive spirit, has been described by Alan Greenspan, the former chairperson of the American Federal Reserve as a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami”. In the face of such calamities, it is easy to think that we are trapped in a quagmire which is so deep that we cannot extricate ourselves. The future seems so bleak.

Yet, in spite of the overwhelming problems sometimes caused by natural disasters but often brought about by human sinfulness (Is 59:2-15a), God in His grace has promised a bright future for those who know Him and seek to follow His way of righteousness. It is a future when a battered world of stubborn darkness will give way to a new world of God’s penetrating and transforming light. It is a new world with a future which is available to those who trust in Him and not those who put their trust in the false promises of a sin-inflicted world.

Commitment:
My foolish inclination to be attracted to and blinded by the distractive light of the world instead of following the true Light.

Prayer:
Help us, O Lord, not to contribute to, to be caught up with, the sinful ways of the world. Use us, instead, to be your light that will point people to your way of salvation. Amen.