There is natural, physical light that comes from the sun, and there is moral light that comes from the Word of God. Natural light makes things visible by illumination. Moral light reveals God and the many dangers to be avoided in this world. Natural light brings vigor and health to the body, but light from God brings strength to the soul. Light is invisible and yet it manifests everything to the eye. God is invisible and yet everything is manifest to His eye. The Lord Jesus came to earth as the true light and exposed the evil that was all around Him. But He was also “the light of men” for those who wanted to walk in godliness. Today, so many walk in moral darkness because they reject the One who came “to give light to them that sit in darkness” (Luke 1:7979To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. (Luke 1:79)). He was “a light to lighten the Gentiles” (Luke 2:3232A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. (Luke 2:32)), but men preferred the darkness because of their love for sin. When men reject God’s light, the power of darkness takes over, as at the crucifixion of Christ when He said, “This is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Luke 22:5353When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. (Luke 22:53)). Then natural darkness followed (in chapter 23:44), for “there was a darkness over all the earth.”
Light enters the body through the eye. If we have a beam in our eye, the light cannot possibly enter. That beam would be a lack of self-judgment. If we don’t correct our ways, how can the light of God enter and benefit us? But if we judge our ways and have a single eye for Christ, our entire body will be filled with light (Luke 11:3434The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. (Luke 11:34)). Can you imagine what this world would be like without the light of God’s precious Word? Man would then be governed by his lust and public opinion. How thankful we should be that we have divine light from God for our pathway through life!
1. What did Jesus say that He was to the world so that we need not walk in darkness? John 8:___
2. There is no darkness at all in God. Why? 1 John 1:___
3. Men loved darkness because their deeds were evil. What else condemns them? John 3:___
4. Why does the god of this world blind the minds of them which believe not?
2 Corinthians 4:___
5. This city had no need of the sun or the moon. How then did it have light?
Revelation 21:___