At 4:00 this morning, my wife abruptly woke me up, shaking me and saying, “There’s something flying around in here!”

Thinking she was having a bad dream, I immediately assured her, “No, there’s not!”

It turned out she was right.

We soon determined that there was a bat flying in circles in our bedroom. The next thing to decide was what to do about it.

I swung a pillow at the elusive critter, but he deftly avoided every attempt to knock him out of the air. (Sorry, there is no video available.)

Finally, Karen said, “Turn the light on.”

I don’t know why we hadn’t thought of that sooner. I was trying to fight the bat on his terms. He was quite comfortable in the darkness. I, on the other hand, am better suited for doing battle in the daylight.

As soon as I turned on the light, the bat landed on the top of a window. Only then was I able to emerge victorious. (I must withhold details pending notification of the bat’s family.)

The Bible says that those who do evil love the darkness, but hate the light. “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”—John 3:19-21.

If there is anything from the dark flying around in your life, you should expose it to the light–the truth of Jesus Christ.