Are you in The Light, or are you Hallucinating in the Darkness?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

While in my teens, I visited Howe Caverns with my parents.  It was a fascinating place of stalactites, stalagmites, and an underground boat-ride.  There is one particular part of that visit I vividly remember.  The tour guide had gathered us all into a large chamber, deep underground, to demonstrate what absolute darkness was like.  Then he turned out the lights, enveloping us in darkness you could almost feel!  In that darkness I heard him say, “can anyone see this white handkerchief in my hand?”  As I peered into that oppressive darkness, struggling to catch a glimpse of that handkerchief, I thought I could faintly see it.  Then he turned the lights back on revealing that his hand was empty.  In the absence of light, my mind had begun to imagine light even though still in absolute darkness.

The Bible describes God’s creation of light, early in the week of creation.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Genesis 1:1-4).

Christ points out that physical light is an illustration picturing Himself as the spiritual light of the world.

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12).

He, as God the Son, came to redeem His people by paying the wages of their sin which is death. (Matthew 1:21, Romans 6:23).

The apostle Peter, writing to Christians, said,

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:9-10).

Are you still in sin’s absolute darkness, just imagining light, or have you heard Christ’s call to follow Him out of darkness into His marvelous light?

 

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