This can certainly be a "merry" Christmas when we have the real ization of God's priceless gift of His Son to us. My thoughts for the season are wrapped up in the phrase, "Christ is the light of the world." In Isaiah 9:2 we find a very significant phrase, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." These people lived in the land of Zebu- lun and Naphtali. Those areas had been heavily attacked in previous years by the Syrians. Yet, this sec tion, known as Galilee in the New Testament, was where God's Light, Jesus Christ, would begin His min istry.
Where darkness is the greatest there the light is needed most des perately. Here is how John testifies of that event, "And the light shin- eth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." Darkness speaks of despair. It can be very deceiving. All of the land in those days was under Roman rule. No doubt these people wondered if life held any hope for them at all. How often even in this day we are trapped by limited vision. Several years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school, I at tended a church-sponsored treas ure hunt. In the summer darkness I met a girl who seemed so nice. I had never talked to her before and decided to ask her to ride to school
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