Afraid of the Light--Dec. 18, 2015

You bid us come to the light, but we are afraid.

We want to hide ourselves from you--

we know that we have done evil,

and we avoid the light, lest

our misdeeds be exposed.

Perhaps we would even

flee to the wilderness;

would you nourish us

there?

How foolish we are.

If we would come to you,

you would show us the path of life;

in your presence we would find

the fullness of joy, for in

your right hand are

pleasures forevermore.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 102; 148; 130; 16

Gen. 3:8-15

Rev. 12:1-10

John 3:16-21

Selected Verses

Ps. 16

You show me the path of life.
          In your presence there is fullness of joy;
          in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Gen. 3:8

[The man and the woman] heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 

Rev. 12:6

…and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

John 3:20

"…For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.  …"  [Jesus to Nicodemus]