Light?

The dissolution is unmistakable. Is there any joy in the future? Or only in the past? This world is so lost in its Gotham type madness that even Batman couldn't save us...Yet still we look to the darkness for light, as one who looks at a desert for water. Where there is darkness there is no light, and where there is light there is no darkness. So what is it in our human nature that forces us look towards darkness for salvation, for hope. Its as if we prefer to walk to and fro with our heads hung, as if we are looking for reasons to be miserable, or ashamed, or destitute. In a way I guess the answer is simple. We are nothing...we are worthless without a savior. Yet, we were created in the image of that same said savior, so just how worthless are we? Maybe its a easy as where we lay our foundation, or with whom we lay it with, or maybe there is more. Will we ever know? I think to many times we use the argument that we are inherently sinful in order to make excuses for things that we do. "Oh I couldn't help it, its just natural for me to sin." But we can't let that be a reason why we do certain things. We were created in the image of the God who created the universe. In the image of the ever present King of Kings who can cause the lame to walk, the blind to see, and raise the dead to life. So what power then does sin have over us? When Christ was beaten and executed for our sins, what chains now hold us? We are fighting a war that has already been won, and were on the winning side. Yet we continue to allow ourselves to be struck down, we continue to despair, blaming our sins on everything but what is truly responsible. We don't sin because its our nature or because we don't know any better...We sin because we like it, plain and simple. We will never be perfect like our God, but we were created in the image of perfection, and through that we can be more powerful than we ever realized. With Christ living in us we are the light in the darkness, we are angels among demons, we are Christ among the Christless. Although we will never be as Christ, or Christ himself, we are Christlike, and so called to exemplify him throughout our thoughts and actions. If don't fulfill our purpose here on earth then we will always be empty, the void will never be filled. If we drink of Christ then we will never thirst again, but that doesn't mean just accepting him as our Lord and Savior. That means fulfilling our purpose here on the earth, and our purpose as vessels of Christ is to be the light among the darkness. To go where others wouldn't dare, knowing that he is with us always. Christ didn't call us to follow him from our bedrooms, or behind closed doors. Christ called us to follow him for everyone to see, Christ calls us to make a statement, a statement of faith, one of resolution and determination that says that no matter what comes our way we will not allow our candle to be snuffed out, that our light shall burn forever true as a beacon of hope for those around us.