Light of the world

Darkness describes a heavy blackness that hides a person’s path. It stops progress, leaving a person paralyzed. Motion is halted in the drape of darkness—light illuminates. The path is made clear. Brightness allows movement.

Light and darkness are not opposing forces. Dark is simply the absence of light. When light enters, darkness is dispelled. There was a time when we lived in spiritual darkness. That’s all we knew. It was natural and normal. Then we met the Light of the world. He dispelled the spiritual darkness that saturated our hearts. Jesus “called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9-10). Paul says we are “children of the light, children of the day” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-5). Jesus says it this way.