all things done in darkness will come to light.

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The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.” Jesus is that light and our hope, and He is the contrast to the darkness that is upon and within mankind. 7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice a nd righteousness From then on and forevermore. As I was thinking about what I should preach for Christmas Sunday, one particular theme kept coming back to me based in the prophecy of Isaiah 9:2 which is cited in a few places in the New Testament – “The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine upon them.” A few verses later, the prophet explains the hope of the light for “ 6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us And the government will rest on His shoulders And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Nothing can separate the believer from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord! (Romans 8:31-39). If tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, peril, demons, principalities, things present or to come cannot separate me from the love of Christ, then neither can disease of any kind of government no matter how evil. The refrain in one song in particular that I enjoyed was, “It does get better than this! I am just a heartbeat away from heavenly bliss!” Those songs helped a lot to melt away the stress of the crazy turmoil that we have all lived under this year. Wonderful reminders of the hope we have in the promises Jesus has made to us. I then listened to an old Southern Gospel tape which had quite a few songs about looking forward to heaven. I listened to all of it at least three times as the music and lyrics were such a good reminder of how wonderful our God is and how worthy He is of all our praise. I wasn’t thinking about it when I started, but there was an old Maranantha! Praise tape in the player. Our plow truck is relatively old, but I am older, so I actually enjoy using its cassette tape player which was cutting edge technology when I was in High School, and I still have a lot of cassette tapes. Then there is the personal challenge of seeing how high can I make that snow bank. It is also pretty to see the snow flowing in front of and around the plow sort of like the wake of a barge as it pushes up stream. Yet, from the positive side, I value our church family being able to gather together, even more so this year, so there is a joy in clearing a way for that to be able to happen. I would much rather enjoy looking at it than have to push it out of the way. Christ’s atonement covers my sin so that I am pure before God, and His Holy Spirit continues to change me so that internally I am becoming more pure as well. It is such a beautiful picture of salvation as Isaiah 1:18 describes it, “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white snow.” The snow covers up what was ugly and makes it look pure. Everything looks so clean and crisp, and especially so when there is a foot or more that covers up everything laying on the ground. From the negative, I don’t want to destroy the beauty of a fresh snow fall. Snow plowing itself gives me mixed feelings. I spent quite a bit of time on Wednesday preparing for the coming snow such as making sure the church’s truck and plow were working properly, and then I spent most of the day light hours on Thursday pushing snow around and cleaning up. I am thankful for DVR technology that allows me to skip that stuff. I don’t know about you, but I don’t even understand some of the commercials, and sometimes even what exactly is the product they want me to buy. It is such nonsense in reporting that has steered me away from any of the mainstream news outlets to find smaller news services that are more interested in accuracy and truth than hype to gain the attention of an audience in order to gain advertising revenue from companies wanting to sell you products, which judging by many of their commercials, have about as much quality as the news propagandist. Weather forecasters have a hard enough time predicting what the next few days will be like, and here some news folks want to predict the next 80 years. It was a lot of snow, but I recall quite a few storms that were much worse. They have no sense of history and want to claim omniscience. I was told on Tuesday that some of the news media was claiming the coming snow would be the “storm of the century.” I guess that says a lot about the hype and lack of truth in much of the news media.

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