In the beginning there was darkness and the darkness was only overcome by the creative word of God. Light is the opposite of darkness and it contains the elements of life blessing, and the fullness of strength. It transmits clarity, joy, a new day, life that springs abundant and uncontainable. All true light in this world comes from God, and all darkness from the enemy. The church has the tendency to focus on the small horizons of personal experience and ignores the wider horizon of society in general where the perversion, injustice, violence seem to extend without obstacle.
Governments stumble in darkness.
The commercial world has its conscience darkened. Our philosophers stagger without light. And society in general is lost. The church must follow the same path when the revelation of God is lacking. If we are to find our way out First of all we have to be conscious of how absolutely necessary the light is .