Light. I love light. I open blinds early in the morning so that I might catch the first rays that come through my windows. I don’t care if it is summer or winter, the blinds are open and inviting the light into our home. That changed when Bob went through this recent eye surgery. The light bothered him, so we kept the blinds and curtains shut to keep the room dark for his comfort. This went on for five days. He was comfortable in the dark; I was miserable.
When Paul told the Corinthians that the “god of this age” blinded eyes, and that it was the work of the believer to share Jesus Christ as Lord to all, he continued with a reminder that God has moved us from darkness to light. It’s a precious theme of Paul’s repeated to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” [2 Cor 4:6 NIV]
The same God who created the natural light, also created a supernatural light in our hearts. Paul calls that supernatural light the “knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
When we look at Jesus the Christ, listen to His words, see the way He related to people, we see the glory of the Creator. And that glory is brilliant!
