Have you seen the video for Blinding Lights by the weekend?

It's pretty cool. I mean, it's got the Michael Jackson Beat It era overtones to it, but also kind of tells a little story.

It's just, I don't know, it's a decent music video, if you're into that kind of thing.

You know, disclaimer, disclaimer, whatever you're into.

It's good, naughty music, I don't know, whatever.

I thought it was cool.

Here's the thing though, the metaphor for light and darkness is something that is timeless.

It's always worked. Everybody knows what it means when somebody throws that out.

You make pop music for children in the year 20 people still get the light and darkness metaphor it works

You make like I don't know a Bible in say the first century a.D and you use the light and darkness metaphor

It works let's say that you're writing

prophecy hundreds of years earlier in the time of the Babylonians and the Persians

and use the light and darkness metaphor. It also works, though there can be the

occasional upside to darkness,

which is acknowledged in that blinding light song,

so generally darkness is like, oh, you can't see as well,

things aren't working as well, you can't identify truth as well,

you can't separate things out or figure things out as well.

Then if you were living constantly in darkness, like say blindness-induced darkness,

it would be way cooler if you could see stuff. So when we're in Matthew Chapter 9 and Jesus heals these two blind guys who relentlessly pursue him being like, hey, have mercy on a son of David and they bust into a house where he's at and Jesus is like, okay, I was totally expecting you and he and he's like hey do you believe that I'm able to do this

healing thing and they're like yes we do Lord and he's like okay-doke and he touches their eyes and

he says according to your faith it will be done and then their sight is restored

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