Darkness doesn’t come on slowly. It doesn’t come down upon the earth like a curtain at the close of play. Indeed, it is subtle, stealth-like. If you’ve ever tried to watch its approach, you’ve noticed that, imperceptively, only to the slightest degree, can you discover a difference from one moment to the next. And even then, you will have to turn away from it for a time before looking back to notice the difference.
Darkness in the soul is like that. A believer is to be a child of light. He is to have no part in the unfruitful works of darkness. Paul urged us, instead, to walk in the light. Darkness, in the Scriptures, is a symbol sin, error, misery and death. It is from such things that God is in the process of delivering us. But there is still darkness that has not yet been driven away by the light. And—worst of all—darkness that, from time to time, may creep back into the soul of a Christian.
How does darkness come into the life of a believer? Just as it spreads upon the earth—incrementally. It doesn’t happen all at once. “How did I ever get into this?” he
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