Notice how dark our culture is? Even the word “dark” is considered good. Like “dark humor” is considered sophisticated. Dark clothing is considered desireable. Music groups advertising their wares, dress shabbily and look gloweringly at you – and this is good?
“Light” is considered to be the opposity of heavy or weighty, and therefore unimportant. Is this because synthetic light is so abundant? Before electricity, light was highly valued. Once the sun went down, we had to use candles or kerosene – neither one very good for studying by, let alone much else.
The outside culture is certainly in our homes. But is that what we want?
Do we want a home of dark humor or light comedy?
Do we want a home that is a fortress or a palace?
Do we want a house that is darkly impressive, or full of light?
Do we want a conversation that is critical or one that is full of the Light of the Ages?
Do we want a family that is at war with one another, or one that is forgiving and hopeful?
Do we want a home that is “spiritual” or one that is “godly”?
Do we want a home that is suspicious or one that “hopes the best.”
Do we want a family that is ever striving? Or one that is “at rest?”
Do we choose to decorate our hearts with words that make them caves of doom, or temples for Jesus?
Do we fight for our license? Or do we delight in discipline?
Do we train ourselves to be realists? Or do we cultivate faith?
Do we celebrate corruption with the world? Or do we hope in the resurrection?
What holidays will you celebrate with your children? What legacy do they pass down? Why follow the culture's path of dark, when light is available?
