Isaiah 9 September 11, 2015
This is a day of darkness for all Americans. 14 years ago the towers fell just 30 miles from Stamford. So where can we find hope on this dark day?
You will not find it in science. American astronomer Carl Sagan said, "Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic darkness." You are a speck here on a planet with 7.2 billion people. This solar system is a speck. To cross even the vast blackness of the Milky Way alone would take 100,000 light years traveling at the blurring speed of light. You are a speck on a speck on a speck floating in a lonely sea of black space. At times you can sit in the dark and feel the reverberating echo of Carl Sagan's words. Sagan also said, "In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." This was one of the wisest scientific minds decreeing to us who are living, walking and breathing in this darkness that there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us. No rumor of relief. No sign of saving. No hope for us as we wait in the darkness. That is the best definition of hopelessness I have ever come across.
But is it true? In this darkness is there no hope for our world? Isaiah the prophet disagrees.
Isaiah 9:2,6 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. For us a child is born, to us a son is given.
The great hope for us is found in a child. This hope is that the God who created the Milky Way, the God who breathed the stars into existence, now breathes Bethlehem's stable air. We are saved from walking in darkness through the baby Jesus. Our hope is found in a person, not a philosophy. Maybe you are in a dark place today. You don't have to stay there. There is a dawn for you. There is a light and it comes from Jesus.
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