Good Friday...

it's a gloomy rainy day today...

seems somehow appropriate for what we know as Good Friday...

i was reading through the events of this day in Luke's account this morning and these words of Jesus when the guards came to seize Him really stuck out to me:

"Am i leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour - when darkness reigns."

"THIS IS YOUR HOUR - WHEN DARKNESS REIGNS"...

this is the hour when darkness reigns, but it only reigns so that the amazing Light can be exposed - fully and completely exposed. it is a day and an hour where darkness reigns, but the light is eagerly waiting to burst forth. it will not be restrained for long - it can't be. the Light is too bright...the Hope is too perfect...and the Plan is almost complete. it is a day when darkness reigns...but only that Light may reign all the more...