For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6 v12

The western world, as it jettisoned its Christian heritage also jettisoned wisdom and discernment. Watching the news is a salient case in point. Everything is understood through the prism of politics, of ideologies, of personalities. But there is little to no understanding of what lies behind. It is as if we have become blind to a a particular colour, let us say blue, and we can only see the world in hues of red, yellow and green. We do not see properly, and in so many things are blind.

And I say we, because it so often seems as if much of the Church has taken its cue from the world. We perceive the reality that media presents to us, rather than the reality Christ revealed to us. We have learned to forget what blue ever looked like. The Bible verses that tells us otherwise, well they gather dust like so many others. Treasures once valued, now sadly neglected in the corner of a forgotten room.

But it is exactly this kind of radical, countercultural, full-spectrum light that we are called to display and to live by. Just reflecting the half-light image of the world back to itself doesn’t cut it. We are given so much more. We carry the light of Christ. And the darkness has not understood, or overcome it.

In this week in particular, let His light shine through us all.