Have you ever seen a worm farm? As you place into the correct tray a swag of rotting kitchen waste and vegetable matter, worms move from the other trays to begin devouring these new nutrients.
It is interesting, that as soon as you lift the lid to pour in the latest deposit, all the worms begin to move away quickly and desperately. They love the food you give them and are happy to produce worm castings to enrich the soil; but they hate the warmth and light from the sun. Actually they are real wimps – they withdraw when it is too cold or too hot. But it is the light that triggers their frantic escape back into darkness.
The Bible describes a life lived outside a covenant-relationship with God as “darkness”, and in turn, describes the message of salvation in Jesus as “light”. Upon hearing the Gospel, one of the basic impulses of most people is to wriggle away desperately from this brightness because it reveals and discloses the secrets and hidden matters of the human psyche.
However, as it is true in nature, so it can be true in spiritual matters. Although we may naturally recoil from the light, it is life, just as the sun’s warmth is essential to the life of flora and fauna.
If you shine the light of Jesus’ teaching, and most importantly the message of His death and resurrection, into your psyche – do you recoil from the exposure or reach out to embrace the light of life?
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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