And it is the way that is certain to lose. When we have hatred in our hearts, we lose the ability to make good choices. It is blinding. We are to turn our loyalties from the world with all its glitter and allure to Jesus Christ who alone is Light. We know where we are going in the light, but we also are confident that the light will win over the darkness.
Light always dispels the darkness.
The light of the world has come to us and the darkness cannot understand this light nor can the darkness extinguish this light. Our world is filled with heroes who have passed this test and who have given themselves to the way of love over hate, light over darkness and God over the ways of the world. Nelson Mandela One of those heroes is Nelson Mandela. Here is a gentle man, raised under the teaching of Christian missionaries, who suffered for 27 years in one of the world's most brutal prisons, Robben Island, off the southern tip of South Africa. He had every excuse to emerge from this injustice and brutality with hate in his heart, and, even more so, he had the opportunity to spread hate through being elected President of his country.