NEARLY every child has, at one time or another, seen a rainbow when it has appeared in the sky after a shower of rain, and the sun has again broken through the clouds. But perhaps not all know that the rainbow is the sign of God’s covenant with man, that He will not any more destroy the earth by a flood of waters.
The rainbow is composed of several beautiful colors and certain clever men tell us that in addition to the colors which we all can see, there are some others not visible to the naked eye, but which may be distinctly seen by means of special instruments. The same clever men have succeeded in collecting some of these invisible colors, as boys might collect marbles to put into their pockets. This collection of colors is called “the new light.”
Though this is very interesting and new to us, it is not new to God, because even the wise King Solomon could say, “There is no new thing under the sun.” This “new light”, so much spoken of at the present time, is, after all, only a part of God’s daylight, the creation of which is related in the first chapter of Genesis, and which everybody daily enjoys.
I will tell you now of another light, that not only can penetrate wooden doors as if they were made of glass, but can enter even into your little hearts; and not only that, for it discerns also our thoughts afar off. The light I am here referring to is the light that is in God Himself; so please remember that God’s light is shining day and night, and that you cannot hide anything from it. Your parents and teachers may not know what is going on in your hearts, but God sees it and knows it. Do not, then, try to hide anything from God. You no doubt remember that the Lord Jesus said to Nathanael, “Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.”
This was quite enough to lead Nathanael to confess Jesus as the Son of God and the King of Israel. And thus we may understand why the psalmist says, “O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. . . The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.”
ML 02/18/1906