title: Light In Darkness: With the Smallest Flame of Hope You Can  Exist in Utter Darkness
author: Richard E Wilford
description: Richard E. Wilford, a native of Gary, Indiana, is the Founder and Senior Pastor of City of Praise; where he has been pastoring over 19 years. He served in the United States Army for 10 years as a drill sergeant and toured in Iraq. He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL. He is a father of 3 (Rochelle, Angelo (deceased), Skye) and Grandfather to one (Tiara). He currently resides in Portage, IN. Richard is currently working on other literary works. Booking speaking engagements and is in the recording studio writing and producing a spoken word album.
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  # **THE CITY WILL BURN**
  
  
  “If you were in Darkness, what would you want more than anything else—what
  would it be that every instinct would call for?”
  
  
  “Why, light, I suppose.”
  
  
  “And how would you get light?”
  
  
  Theremon pointed to the switch on the wall. “I’d turn it on.”
  
  
  Sheerin said, “Where will light come from, when the generators stop? You’d be
  out on the street in the Darkness. And you want light. So you burn something.
  Ever see a forest fire? Ever go camping and cook a stew over a wood fire? Heat
  isn’t the only thing burning wood gives off, you know. It gives off light, and
  people are very aware of that. And when it’s dark they want light, and they’re
  going to _get it._ ”
  
  
  “So they’ll burn logs,” Theremon said without much conviction.
  
  
  “They’ll burn whatever they can get. They’ve got to have light. They’ve got to
  burn something, and wood won’t be handy, not on city streets. So they’ll burn
  whatever is neares