Twilight

Twilight. For those of you who are Twilight junkies, this is not a review of the book. Ok, I admit it is a pretty sweet photo though. I know how you adamantly demand your fix of popular vampire romance. I give up on the dialog of meritorious literature, the whole issue of vampiring, etc. I leave that to you to decide. But, twilight is ,nevertheless, a mysterious time of transition. The element of the unknown is unnerving and ever so fascinating. Thus it is a fitting title for the book series and this posting.

Twilight, is the weird land of half-in and half-out. The pause of gray that separates black and white. It is a zone of indecision where we travel through to be where we belong.
Here lies the trouble with life on this planet. This existence is like an extended tour of duty on Planet Twilight. The place between creation and the completion that is to come.
For all of us left in the in-between there is hope. Christ knew his followers would be left in this gray space and he had words to comfort them.
John 14:1-6

When they peered ahead at the future without him, they could not imagine the images that lay before them. Life as they knew it would change forever. That part they got. What Jesus knew was that they needed to remember that He knew who they were. He knew they were hungry. He knew they were tired. He got the whole needy thing about being alive. Been there done that revelation. God had always known, and that is one of the messages Jesus came to communicate.
If they never made the transition between distant God and personal Saviour, they would stay stuck in that fearful twilight. God had a new image in their minds. He was no longer that scary guy.

Christ came to reveal who God is in His person. He is God and therefore mankind got a first hand view of what they had only heard through stories and scrolls. While living in the twilight Jesus brought the fire to warm them and illuminate the future with Him. With Him in the circle there was more of a warm red glow than a gray pallor. This twilight thing is more doable when we trust Him with it. Can you trust Him with it? I return to thoughts on Twilight, the novel.

If we can view a man with fangs as a safe place, surely we can see Jesus as trustworthy with our real life. In the book series, it is all about taking risks for the ones you love. Isn't that what Jesus championed for us all?

Think about it.