Does God have a DARK SIDE?

(insert heavy breathing) "Luke...(breathe)..I am your father."(more heavy breathing)

With this dramatic scene, the hero Luke Skywalker  learns of the potential for evil coursing through his veins - the inclination inherited from his father toward the Dark Side!

I wonder - particularly when reading texts like Psalm 90 - does God our Father have a dark side as well? Have we, as His children, inherited the negative as well as the positive qualities of God?

God...DARK? To some of you, them is fightin' words! Psalm 90:7 - "we are brought to an end by your anger." Verse 9 - "For all our days pass away under your wrath." Verse 11 - "who considers the power of your anger?" Wow! That's DARK! We don't want to think about these things! But the fact is that God gives life AND takes it away. Our reality is that we live in the wrath of God, as our bodies ages, decay and eventually succumb to death-the just reward for our sins. The power of the anger of God is immediately evident. We don't have to guess - the darkness is deep. It's so deep that we soon realize that it's this darkness, brought to our attention through the knowledge of good and evil our God tried to keep us from, this darkness now courses through our veins as children of wrath. Whew- that's tough to swallow! But, friends, you and I realize that we cannot know light without darkness. As God has a side that is dark and hidden from our knowledge and understanding, He also has a side that is light...pure light.. THE  light, as the evangelist John writes, that "shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." This is the light that has been revealed to those who walked in darkness, says Isaiah (9:2). This the light of God's love, the only light that has the power to illuminate our path today and into eternity. There will be a day when we live in this light ALWAYS - that day is, in fact, with us, when we grab a hold of the gift God has given us - Jesus, pure light, pure love - in whom there is no darkness, no tears, not death - simply LIFE!