This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” John 11:25-27.

Can we grasp that Isaiah, the prophet of God, wrote this prophecy 700 years before the events occurred in this chapter, Isaiah 53? Who could have foretold this? Creator God – Father…Son…Spirit. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem. Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered Him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away. Yet who of His generation protested? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, though He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and though the Lord makes His life an offering for sin, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand. After He has suffered, He will see the light of life and be satisfied; by His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He poured out His life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. He did that for us. Father, Son, Spirit did that for each one of us.

I don’t know who won the election in our country and honestly, I don’t care. I felt anxious just like all of us have felt. But I brought all of that to God this morning and read the words of our chapter, and realized God’s truth and His love holds us safe. He will be with me and all of us as we navigate whatever life brings. The question is, will we believe. We can push Him away and go our own way in our own darkness and the darkness of others. Or…we can choose to understand. It’s big! It will take all of your life to understand what God has done for us and does for us still, but it’s so worth everything to begin this journey with Him! In Him there is no darkness at all!