Blinding Darkness

One of my best friends wrote this poem a while ago, she's immensely talented, and showed me this wonderful poem, at a very crucial point in my faith, provoking me to wonder provoking me to think.

Darkness grows
in the hearts of men.
All love is gone
as if it'd never been.

Selfishness holds the mind.
Anger controls your words.
Hate begins all actions.
Bitterness builds and stores.

So when people who love sin,
run when they see his light.
His forgiveness knows no bounds,
but still they cower in night.

He knows all their names
has felt every pain they've nursed,
but they don't know their God,
So continue life with hearts emptied by thirst
and stained with darkness.
-Hayley Mendes
as i read this, i drew mental images of literal people running away. running away from a God who wants to hold you, especially in darkness, especially in pain, and especially wounded. i saw angry people, angry and confused people running into darkness. thinking that the darkness was whats best, was what love was and where emotions were dark and deary.
but as they're running away from God, who sits there: holding all their needs in his hands and forgiving them each and every step they take in the opposite direction, yet still they're running from a providing God into darkness, deeper and deeper, darker and darker, i futher imagine my loving forgiving, providing God, sitting there watching with love, watching with hope, and wanting them more and more wondering,
"Don't you need a flashlight?"

Signature.

In contract law, it is the signature of the person who is bound, that is required. In a signature, the name is an essential part, of the mark making. When signing your autograph, mark, or signature, it can often be difficult to read, such as a scribble or an illegible scrawl. In art and music, a signature can be a unique handiwork of the artist, something that identifies themselves with others, that shows the characteristics of their mind in a tangible or audible work. When you’ve formed something of your very own, you often want to be credited for that on your behalf, essentially when it is something magnificent. The entire making of the magnificence in the glory of your creation is something you want to be proud of and adding a piece of yourself to it makes it all the more brilliant. God more often than not gives himself a name, such as I AM, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End. He distinguishes his being as the Beginning and the End, seeing Him as everything in between the beginning and the end of time. Throughout the entire bible, God sticks to the same images of being a Father, Shepherd and also continues to the names
He over and over again identifies Himself with.
In the Old Testament, God calls himself the I AM, continuing, in the New Testament, Jesus and many generations of Christians also recalls our God as the I AM. And Jesus refers also to himself as the Alpha and Omega. Alpha, being the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet and Omega being the last, God is every word and letter in between.
The first chapter of the Gospel of John, it tells of when God’s Word became fleshJohn 1
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Thus, God being every single Word, When Jesus lets the all of creation know that He is also the Alpha and Omega, He is The Word, and every single word. He’s the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
He is “God’s signature”.
God sent His very own signature, wrapped in human flesh and, through God’s signature, we are His work of art and a masterpiece, coming first though His Son and His very Signature unto Life and into Being. And coming into Being is like the bounding of the contract law, we have God’s contract, signed, sealed, and delivered
What more could we ask for?
Although, His signature can be difficult to read, when we are just mere flesh, especially without The Word. Adding just the thoughts and ideas of our wonderful and majestic Savior into our lives, God’s Signature in us can simply go from an illegible scrawl into a wonderful masterpiece.
Words are just words, when coming from us, they can hurt, heal, inspire, reject, love, or hate. But coming from God, His Words are the words of Life. Ending the Old Testament, God silenced His “mouth” for 400 years, and finally, FINALLY, He ended the silence with The Word. He spoke again, using the only Word that could ever matter to the world, the only Word that could save humanity, The Word of Life.John 3:16
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.His Son, Our Savior, and not just an addition to history, but a new era, The A.D. a completely new transformation of time itself, The NEW Beginning and and the End.1 John 1
1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.God is our artist, and made us in the likeness of His Son, made us with His Signature. And sending His Son, so that His beauty, brilliance, and magnificence could see it’s maker with their very own five senses, We all can have a greater Life, and proclaim the Word is the Lord, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and Omega.