AUGUST 11

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

“He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.” (Psalm 107:14)

When Man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7), he found himself limited, placed within bounds – the brightness of God was on one side, the darkness of the flesh was on the other. In the beginning he possessed a bright nature, able to commune with God. But falling into the soulishness of “I will.” Subjected to a body of flesh, made from the dust of the earth, he found himself in a conflict, whether to yield to the glory of the Spirit realm, or to begin to mind the things of the flesh. God had breathed into him the breath of life, the inspiration of the Almighty was upon him, and God laid claim to him, saying, “this creature is Mine.” But the realm of the flesh also laid claim upon him, in as much as he was encased in a body of the earth.

We know that Adam communed with God for a season, “the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” (Gen. 3:8). God is Spirit, and Adam was able to commune in spirit with God, alive, open to this realm. The bright nature within him was able to respond to the light of God, without shadows cast upon the fellowship, until sin took hold, and immediately Adam found himself on the edge of darkness. As sin’s consequence took hold, the light within went out, “having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God,” (Eph. 4:18), and he gave his mind to the flesh.

The record does not end with man’s plunge into darkness, God already had arrangements made “to give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the Dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” (Luke 1:77-79).

From the edge of darkness and into His light,
The Spirit doth lead us out of earth’s night.
Ray Prinzing