Pastor John Wright with a Christmas Eve sermon on the LIGHT which shines from the advent of the Christ; a light which illuminates what amounts to nothingness; a “revealing” of what is true that overcomes what is absence of light.
Amidst the poverty, at the very margins of the land of darkness in which people dwell, God becomes human and dwells among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory of the only begotten Child. The Light shines in the darkness. Unto us a child is born.
God has sent God’s own Self into the land of darkness in which we dwell as this poor Jewish child, born of a displaced, poor Jewish woman. As Benedict XVIth said yesterday, “God our Lord did not use the outer trappings of power against the threats of History as we men do in keeping with the norms of our world and might have expected from Him. God wields the weapon of kindness; revealed Himself as a babe in a manger; and so uses His power against the destructive might of violence. Thus, God saves us and shows us what He saves.†Amidst the darkness God has sent the Light, God’s very Self, the Word made flesh that has dwelt among us.