What happens when that Word is rejected, distorted, or ignored?

If “the entrance of Your Word gives light,” what happens when that Word is rejected, distorted, or ignored?

“The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
Psalm 119:130

When light is rejected, darkness is not just allowed — it increases. Rejection of truth is not neutral; it invites confusion, judgement, and spiritual blindness.

🔥 1. Rejection of the Word Leads to Darkness and Delusion

“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19

“Because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved… God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10–11

When truth is resisted, lies are embraced. When God’s light is shut out, false lights and fake wisdom take over.

🌑 2. Ignoring the Word Brings National and Personal Darkness

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you…” Hosea 4:6

“Where there is no vision [prophetic revelation], the people cast off restraint.”
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

It’s not ignorance alone that destroys — it’s rejected knowledge, truth that was available but unwanted.
When the Word is set aside, restraint breaks down. Boundaries disappear. Everyone becomes their own authority.

📌 Modern parallels:

The Word is preached, but people prefer “what works” or “what feels right.”

Bibles gather dust while podcasts shape belief.

Moral clarity is sacrificed for popularity and self-expression.

⚖️ 3. Distorting the Word Invites Judgement

“They have rejected the word of the LORD; so what wisdom do they have?” Jeremiah 8:9

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness…” Isaiah 5:20

To twist the Word is to twist the light — turning it into shadow. When preachers and leaders distort truth, they dim the lamp for entire generations.

Paul warned of this:

“For the time will come when people will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires… they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3–4

🕳 4. Walking Away from the Word Opens the Door to Spiritual Blindness

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness…” Matthew 6:22–23

When people choose not to see, God sometimes lets them be blind.
It’s not that truth disappeared — it’s that they chose to ignore it, and so lost the capacity to perceive it.

💡 So… is our generation dark because it lacked access to truth?

No. The Word is more available now than ever before:

Translated into thousands of languages

Preached online, on air, in print

Quoted in songs, sermons, even secular circles

The problem is not absence of light — it’s closed eyes and hardened hearts.

“This people’s heart has grown dull… they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart…” Matthew 13:15

✅ Summary:

When the Word is… The Result Is…

Received and obeyed Light, understanding, freedom
Rejected Delusion and decay
Distorted Confusion and judgement
Ignored Blindness and stagnation

🔚 Final Reflection:

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” — Psalm 119:105. But a lamp only helps if we choose to carry it.

We are not facing darkness because God hid His light.We are facing it because a generation has learned to ignore, edit, or replace that light.

May we return to the Word.
May we honour it, love it, and walk in it — not just read it. And may the light shine again in this generation.

Kay Alli