daily java

Daily Java: Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. (John 3:20-21).

We lived in Houston for most of our early lives. Houston is a wet climate and because of that has roaches. They are large and dark brown and ugly. The sight of a bunch of them makes your skin crawl.

The problem with Houston is that everybody has roaches, or at least is just a short time away from having them. It is part of the climate. There are just so many roaches that it is easy to become infested without realizing it.

No one wants them, but they are always there ready to jump out.

Our first house (which I bought for $12,100 on GI Bill) in South Houston had a real problem with them. It wasn’t apparent when we bought the house and moved in, but soon they were everywhere. When you would walk into the kitchen at night and turn on the light, they would scurry everywhere trying to get back into a dark place.

Roaches really don’t like the light. They like the dark.

When we would turn on the kitchen light, we would keep our eyes closed until we knew they were gone. It took a lot of work to get rid of them. To this day, almost 40 years later, I still tend to bang the cabinet door before opening it. After a couple or roaches dropped into the food on the counter, I figured that out.

Evil is the same way. Just like roaches hate it when you turn on the kitchen light, so evil hates it when you point it out. The light of truth comes into the room and evil runs away and tries to find a dark sorry place to be.

Walk into your average bar and turn on a large light and see what happens. “Well, let’s see who’s in here. No. Most bars are dark for a reason. The people in them are hiding.

Those who love God love truth.  They welcome the light. That doesn’t mean they are masochists always looking to learn what they are doing wrong and always welcoming correction. They aren’t goofy. But they want to know what is right.

The child of God doesn’t want to live in darkness. It is not in his spiritual nature. His spiritual nature is light. Jesus came into the world as the light. John 1 says in him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The darkness hated him because he exposed it for what it was: evil.

Again, that is why Hollywood and others like them hate Christianity. They want to do wrong and Christianity points out what is right. When the light shines and exposes the deeds of darkness, the stupid and wrong stuff that is being done, they hate it and try their best to stop it.

But it will not be stopped. It has not been stopped for almost 2000 years and will continue despite predictions to the contrary until Jesus comes again.

Praise God for his Son who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light (1 Peter 2:9).