The connection between light and crime may not be what most of us think it is, but the connection between light and our sense of safety is exactly what it’s always been.
Mike Riggs. Street Lights and Crime: A Seemingly Endless Debate, citylab.com, Feb. 14, 2014
Whether justified or not, we somehow FEEL safer when the light invades the darkness.
In him [Jesus] was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:4-5 New International Version (NIV)
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. 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 come into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
John 3:16-21 (NIV)
If Jesus is not Lord of all, then Jesus not Lord at all.
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12 (NIV)
Speed of light
186,282 miles per second
670 million mph
Around the earth 7.5 times in 1 second
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Light always overcomes the darkness!
JESUS IS THE LIGHT!