What is darkness and what is its power? Darkness is the work of Satan and his companions. It is hatred, un-forgiveness, covetousness, lying, deceit, cheating, manipulation, adultery, fornication, unfaithfulness, drunkenness, contentiousness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, outbursts of wrath, dissensions, heresies, envy, jealousies, coarse jesting, selfish ambitions and the like (Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:3-7).
The power of the darkness is the power to destroy life. It is a life filled with suspicion and loneliness, of mistrust and anger, a life filled with discontent.
God has delivered us from all of this. He has brought us out of this darkness into His light (Colossians 1:13).
