Dark Hours

For many years now there have been those folk who attempt to make us believe that mankind, you and me, are negatively affecting the climate of our World. In 2007 they created “Earth Hour” to remind us that our World my go dark (as in the inability to support life) in the relatively near future if we are not diligent to reverse our impact.

Seven thousand cities in 162 countries across the globe are turning off their lights for Earth Hour this year. Each city will dim their skyline beginning at 8:30 p.m. local time on Saturday. Earth Hour started in 2007 as a World Wildlife Fund event in Australia and has grown to become a global message that citizens across the world must work together to fight climate change. Some of the world’s best-known landmarks will go dark this year, including the the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the United Nations building in New York City and the Cristo Redentor in Rio de Janeiro. (TIME)

Let me remind you, if I may, that this is also the week Believers will focus their remembrance on the only time, since it was created, that the entire World was dark (Luke 23:44). On that day, from noon until 3pm, while the Savior of the World bore in His body all the sin of all mankind for all time, and received in His infinite self the infinite punishment called for by the infinite righteousness of God, the Scripture tells us that darkness covered the entire face of the Earth.

How foolish are we to believe that we (mankind) can effect any change in a Universe so vast we cannot not even see it all,  so intricate in its workings we are incompetent to understand the smallest details, and so orderly we are compelled to discuss an intelligence far beyond our comprehension.

Turn out your lights if  you wish, but be reminded! The World was dark for your sake on the day Jesus Christ died on Calvary, so that you might live in His light in an infinite forever.