Dear friend,
Can you imagine a universe without light at all? Without light, the properties of object to reflect the different colours of the rainbow would be meaningless, and every object in this universe would not appear at all in all their different glory as we know them to be in our present world. We would not know what we would be missing, but with the experience of our present world, we know this must be better than a world without light. Another analogy would be the experiences of a blind man in contrast with those of seeing people. What a world of difference! Thank God for creating light for us.
The existence of rational moral creatures without the Word of God is like the existence of the universe without the physical light. Something fundamentally important is missing rendering that world incomplete and not as glorious as it should be. Without the spiritual light of God's Word, rational moral creatures do not communicate properly and thus do not relate to each other well and in a wholesome manner, resulting in confusion and all manner of evils, the activities of darkness. The Fall of man plunged the human race into darkness, confusion and sin. But, thanks be to God, ...
"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness." (Psa. 112:4) Jesus is the light of that world where men fear the Lord. As the light arises we must learn to "trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God." (Isa. 50:10) The surrounding darkness cannot overwhelm us for "the Lord upholdeth him with his hand" (Psa. 37:24) and His "commmandment is a lamp, and the law is light." (Pro. 6:23) With the light we are safe as we keep to that path of light without turning to the left nor to the right.
Our body needs the light and this light is our eye. Our eye perceives and interprets the light reflected by the different objects around us. This gives meaning and tells us what to do next. If our eye sees a unified, consistent world, then our body is full of light and we are happy and confident in our walk. But if our eye sees a confused world that keeps changing every now and then, then we may be thrown to the surrounding darkness instead. If what we see is darkness, then our light is darkness. Then we are the children not of the light, but of darkness.
"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," (1Th. 5:5-9)
Where are you going?
Do read the Holy Scriptures for yourselves in the free Daily Light on Daily Path for this day at http://soshine.blogspot.com/2007/09/daily-light-on-daily-path-december.html#Dec19M.
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