I am sitting here listening to the IHOP prayer room. Matt Gilman is singing through Rev 5:1-4. He began to sing how "we love darkness rather than the light." I continued to dwell on that thought. I know that mankind, as a whole, loves darkness. I know that I have loved darkness. If fact there are still places in me that would love on darkness.
But why do we love of darkness so much and love the light so little. Wouldn't we say the light is better than the darkness. Why so much affection for the lessor things. Why a battle to love the light. Why isn't love the light the easy love.
Then I remembered a conversation with Pastor Nicholls from Mission of Grace. We were talking about why people held so tightly to the celebration of Halloween. He argued it was because they had so little experience of the presence of the Holy Spirit. When you experience the power and holiness of God - evil is more clearly obvious.
Little experience of the light makes the darkness more appealing and easier to love.
So much time is spent on the darkness, so much money invested in the darkness, so much of everyday life invaded by the darkness. And I am talking about the everyday dull darkness.
How much time do we have in the experience of the Holy and Powerful God - in the light. What? Maybe once a week if things go well on Sunday morning?
If we don't roll around in the light with the same investment as the darkness we will never love it more.
Our faith is not practiced much. Our weeks aren't full of encountering God. So the love for the light slips from our heart. I am compelled all the more to night and day prayer. Places where worship does not stop. Places were we soak often in the light and love it all the more. Places for people to practice their faith everyday = all the time.
I want to be a lover of the light.
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