LIGHT DRIVES OUT DARKNESS

LIGHT DRIVES OUT DARKNESS

How would you remove darkness from any place? By bringing a good light into it. Well, this is the only way to be preserved from any evil, either in act or feeling, by being controlled by its opposite: “Whatsoever doth make manifest is light” (Ephesians 5: 13). If you were arguing for ever with darkness or deploring it to anguish, you would not get rid of it; but bring in the light, and the darkness is superseded. Be occupied with the good, and the bad will disappear. I am sure it is the idol that hinders every one; the idol is what one likes best naturally; our idol now is the dark spot. You are in your right place, or it would be pleasant to see you here. I know that your blessing is sure when you are doing the Lord’s will. I was speaking yesterday on the verse,

“^[p. 449] If any man serve me, let him follow me” (John 12: 26), and in the evening on the bruising of the serpent’s head. Where the power of death was most disastrous in a man, there the Lord subdued it in death. “He death overthrew”, and He, the risen Man, is our Saviour. He not only gives us peace, but His own life. I am going to lecture on the difference between the first day in the wilderness and the first day in Canaan. You find Marah - bitter water - in the first, but Christ is the tree. Circumcision in Canaan, but Christ is the old corn of the land, and with us as the Captain of the Lord’s host. We are ready to forget that this world is a wilderness, nothing but God, and we are each being taught this in one way and another. We learn not to look at our trials to see how He will act for us, but to look up to Him, and wait on Him, and watch what He is going to do for us; thus our difficulties are not a clue or indication of what He can do, for He will do some-thing exceeding abundantly. May your heart rejoice much in Him.