Monday, April 16, 2001
Monday, April 16, 2001
"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
A world without Christ would be a dark world indeed. Imagine our nation with its Christian
hospitals closed, its Christian Universities, its shelters for the homeless. Imagine people with no
basis for moral decision making--families who never prayed together. Imagine a world without
Handel's MESSIAH--a world without altars at which to marry our young and bury our old.
Imagine a society with no sense of spiritual purpose and undergirding. Of course, some would
argue that we already have such a society. How sad. Mary Magdalene came to the tomb while it
was still dark. But Jesus had risen and light was forever brought into our world.
(John 9:5
NRSV)
Back in 1903, Guy Thornton wrote a book titled WHEN IT WAS DARK. Subtitled THE
STORY OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY, it graphically describes the moral collapse that would
occur if the world were suddenly to discover that the resurrection of Jesus was a hoax. The
climax of the novel tells what happened the day after people heard the news that Christ never
rose. The results were horrible, although in the end the conspiracy was exposed and the villain
carried off to an asylum.
Dear Jesus, light up my life and world today. Amen.
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