Have you been on a tour deep in a cave when all lights are extinguished? Total darkness! You can’t see your hand right in front of your face. Everyone becomes quiet. Some become unsteady, lacking visual references to keep their balance. And then it gets quieter still. When the tour guide turns on the smallest light, there is such relief!
Spiritually, we are in darkness…unless Christ, the Light of the world, brings us into His marvelous light.
Jesus Christ, the Light of the world and the world to come
Jesus Christ is the Light of the world.
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world. (John 9:5)
Jesus Christ is the Light in the world to come.
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. (Revelation 21:23–24)
And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them. (Revelation 22:5)
Ezekiel, Daniel, and John, when they saw His face like lightning, and His eyes of flame, fell on their faces.
The Light, Jesus Christ, gives us glimpses of His glory, His majesty, so overwhelming our only proper response is to fall at His feet and worship Him.
Christ, The Light of the World
It’s not that He gives off light, but He IS light. He is the source of all light.
For us, His followers, children of God:
He takes us out of the darkness:
I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. (John 12:44–46)
He has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9)
He enlightens us, giving us a lighted path and hope:
I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life. (John 8:12)
He is our source of revelation:
A Light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel. (Luke 2:32)
[We were given] the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:3–6)
He makes believers sons of Light, children of Light
While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light. (John 12:35–36)
Children of Light have responsibilities
You were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:8–13)
For the world:
Christ, The Light, Exposes Evil
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. (John 3:19-21)
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Praise The Light
I praise You, Christ, Light of the World. You, the Light, illuminate sin and righteousness, and guide us to all truth. I praise You, the Light for the world to come, that You are all we need. I praise You that You made me a child of light, that You have taken me out of darkness into Your light. I praise You for Your revelation of Yourself, the Father, and the world to come.
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This was the twelfth in the Praise series. Here are the previous eleven:
