THUR -Day 3b) Depth of Vision
In America and other developed nations, most highways and byways are well lit. The streets, signs and roadside exits with drive-through food and fuel stops have lights to entice to their brand of convenience. You can not just see where you are - you can see where you want to be!
It is not that way here. Even as we pass through townships of commerce, the light from the shop front only illuminates about 50 feet to the street side, and behind the building and beyond lies total darkness. When we have taken time to slow down (for crossing pedestrians, bicyclists and two passenger taxis) it was possible to catch a glimpse of kerosene lanterns inside the houses. But the rest is just dark.
There was fog when we drove through the Karinzanga Game reserve. This made spotting cyclists, workers walking home from a day picking tea and the animals that occupy this beautiful forest impossible to see. Signs cautioned drivers to use their horns as little as possible - but it was improbable humans would survive without the blast of sound alerting them to get off the road. I am sure the animals have grown accustomed to the noise of the Industrial Revolution harassing them in their habitat.
Coming from a nation founded on religious freedom, with Judeo-Christian morals as the plumb line for behavior, it is easy to cast a critical eye on those who question, quarrel and even threaten us with violence.
But driving down the dark roads I realized, they truly are a people living in "darkness". They do not understand because they have not been given the infrastructure (a Christian foundation) or the equipment (flashlights and street lamps of the Living Word) to guide them out of the dark.
I am always amazed to watch in the pitch black of night people walking without any form of light to guide them AT ALL. Until a car, truck or van passes they can't even see potholes or other dangers that might cause them to fall. They have grown so adept at finding their way "in the dark" is it all that hard to believe they see no reason for what we refer to as the Light of the World?
"This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light..." John 3:19
Turning on the Light
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