Life was intended to be lived with an amazing joy of knowing our Creator and living and walking in His light.

2. “...the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great
light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow
of death, on them a light has dawned.”
– Matthew 4:16

3. Since the beginning God has been sending light into
darkness.

4. The earth was without form and void, and darkness
was over the face of the deep.
– Genesis 1:2

5. In the beginning, God
created the heavens and
the earth. […]
3 And God said, “Let there
be light,” and there was
light.
- Genesis 1:1,3
In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was
God. […]
4 In him was life, and the life
was the light of men. The
light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not
overcome it.
- John 1:1,4-5

6. To appreciate the Light, we’ve got to confront the
magnitude of the darkness.

7. After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of
his birth. And Job said:
“Let the day perish on which I was born, and the
night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness! May God above not
seek it, nor light shine upon it.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let
clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day
terrify it.

8. That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not
rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come
into the number of the months.
– Job 3:1-6

9. “...the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great
light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow
of death, on them a light has dawned.”
– Matthew 4:16

10. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace
among those with whom he is pleased!”
– Luke 2:14