Daily Christmas Devotion December 5

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Jeanette Dillard

And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star shines in your hearts.

2 Peter 1:19 (NASB)

One star glistens in the black doom of smothering sky.

One lonely light. The only light in the heavens shatters a world of darkness. Abandoned by the millions that shone hours before, this one blazes thousands of miles from those who draw courage from its steadfast warmth, like a blaze on a cold night or an embrace in a sea of loneliness. No darkness can quench it and no cloud will smother it. It is the light that flickers between lights; between a canopy of stars and the buried sun.

Suspended in transition, it is a lamp that welcomes a greater light, burning with comfort from the cold night and a promise of the coming day. It is fixed as a guide for those on earth. Light has come: it is already here. In the twilight before daybreak, the morning star glistens like the hope of the earth in a breathless statement: Dawn will come. Our God never forsakes His people.

In the twilight of time, between lights, He sent a morning star: His son Jesus.

Lord, I thank you for Your hope that preserves my faith in Your goodness so I am a sky never forsaken by Light.