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Light: Part Two

When you think about the creation story you probably don’t go to the book of Job, and yet God gave great details there when describing it throughout chapters 38-41. For example, God commanded the earth to rotate and revolve around the greater light (the sun) creating time and seasons.

“Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east? Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night’s wickedness? As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors. The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence.” Job 38:12-15 

John used this powerful metaphor of light when describing the Messiah and His forerunner. 

God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. John 1:6-9 

It wasn’t physical light he was describing but the spiritual, upper story illumination we receive in our hearts and minds. John was heavenly minded and repetitive as he told the Jesus’ story from that perspective. Just as the darkness of night moves into the light of day, our hearts and minds gain understanding as the Spirit guides us into truth. It’s like that speech bubble in cartoons that pictures a light bulb showing a person understands. The Spirit shines a light in our darkness or confusion like that, slowly moving us into the light of insight much like morning appearing at dawn, daylight ending a long night.  

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to You; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with You. Psalm 139:11-12

You’d think everyone would want that true light of Christ, and yet some still refuse to admit they need help, and they remain in spiritual darkness.

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. John 3:19-21 

If you need the light of God simply ask the Holy Spirit to shine in your heart bringing understanding of His love, His care, and forgiveness. God’s presence will rotate your night into morning as you revolve around Him through every season of your life. Remember, joy always comes in the morning.