People Fear Their Darkness, Instead Of Fearing He Who Dispels Darkness

I don't think many people of the world are ready for individual responsibility, their ill preparation won't excuse their manners.

This is the fearful expectation of death after a life lived without deference to the conscience.

Although an individual's heart is not clearly revealed for all it contains, the words an individual chooses to use does reveal certain details of their heart's content.

The choice of words alongside the actions of an individual does reveal enough of their heart's condition to show where any given person is at any certain time in their life.

The internet has brought forth the dark recesses of humanity into the shining flood lights of mass observation and judgment.

The saint is mocked although they confess their humanity in shame yet in the light of grace.

The sinner is praised for their prideful adornment of depravity yet shamelessly denying grace.

With technology's insight into so-called secured internet communication, the virtual sharing of information is not hidden from the purview of another human.

What I find interesting is how some people express a fear that another human being will 'know' what they have done or said...and allowing this fear to override the fear that God has always known what one has done, and what one has thought and pondered in their heart.

I think it has to do with human understanding of a peer group, and the pressures and challenges human judgment carries.

At least with the notion of a Perfect God judging one's life and one's heart and mind, there is a chance that God will judge objectively.

What if this Perfect God became a human being in order to express to humanity that He understood their challenges, struggles, fears and frailty?

Such is never the case with humans and their judgments, since their observation is only skin deep.

And since many people fear death, it makes sense why people would fear what other humans may do to them, but also the ultimate finality of death.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of all mankind. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it... 

...The True Light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him... 

...Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 

- John 1: 1-5, 9-10, 12-14

But what of those humans who think themselves worthy of judging another human being...and going so far as to pass judgment and condemnation upon another human, even a death sentence?

Man has always desired to play God, even to the point of thinking themselves as being 'like God' or having the ability to judge others 'correctly'.

Such temptations are not uncommon, and are expressed quite thoroughly throughout history's voluminous depictions of men supposedly at their best, yet clearly at their worst.

Where one testimony depicts man as carnal and making excuses and being praised by others as someone important, another testimony doesn't mince words nor allows room for such arrogant excuses...but shows all mankind as fallen and carnal and in need of redemption.

If each one of us were to pen our own life's history, would we be making excuses and justifications in keen arguments?

Or would we be honest with ourselves?

Knowing very well we can possibly fool other humans, and possibly ourselves by self-deception, but not fool a God who has always known you, or known about you.

A God who not only knows what you would do and think, but how your end would be detailed.

For some people, the thought of such a God strikes fear to their inner soul (for obvious reason).

Yet for others, the thought of such a God is a refreshing thought...since these are sobered by their own humanity and frailty, looking for Salvation from such a Judge and not from themselves, or from their own efforts.

For God so loved the world that He gave His One and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the Name of God’s One and only Son. 

- John 3: 16-18

The 'Name' of God's One and only Son literally means 'salvation'.

This is the contemplation and challenge between the darkness and the light.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and will not come into the Light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the Truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. 

- John 3: 19-21

Where one individual desires to keep the secrets of their hearts hidden away not only from other humans, but also from themselves (looking in the mirror), but also from the thought of an all-knowing and all-seeing God, another individual basks in the understanding that such a God is the only One capable of judging righteously and objectively and individually.

A God that judges not according to outer appearance, but in accordance to things not easily understood by humans, even those humans arguing that they 'know' so much about a God they describe according to interesting ideas, but according to their lives are showing their fear of the darkness and their reluctance to come into the Light.

They simply fear what is found in their heart and soul.

And when one ponders that such a God was revealed to be the very definition of Love, only those who fear their own darkness are apt to fear such a God of Love.

Love is what every human is promised, but not every human can accept such a responsibility.

Love has to do with Light, and the world has confused love for lust and depravity and making up rules for one's self...while ignoring the Love that has been promised them.