This week, at the Ladies’ Bible Study, we looked at Jesus as the Light of the world, having come into darkness. This poem is my reflection on those words in John 8, and the two contrasts meeting.

Light

Life

Glimpses, unable to fully understand

Wrapped in warmth and closeness

Complete and utter comprehension

Time filled with perfection

Abundance of goodness

Held by an almighty hand

Creation designed to thrive

Filled with glory and might

***

Darkness

spite

Pain and suffering

Stumbling on uneven ground

Death, destruction and despair

Days a living nightmare

Anger abounding around

Fear’s grip constantly winning

Existing through fight

Filled with hopelessness

***

Where should these meet, ever?

What fellowship can they have together?

Two worlds, colliding

Incomprehensibly, peace with us abiding

Light has come to down to earth

Hatred overwhelmed with mirth

For Life has been poured out

And Love has overcome those by darkness bound

Now calling us children of the King

***

No room for unkindness and quarrelling

Light and Life has been restored

Darkness and evil no longer our first resort

Walking in His grace and mercy

Only through our Saviour’s death counted worthy

Two worlds colliding

God made Man, with us abiding.

What fellowship can we then have, why in darkness stay

When in Jesus Christ we are healed this day?