On This Day: A Light Read for Dwellers in Darkness

Who among you fears the LORD
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
    and has no light
trust in the name of the LORD
    and rely on his God.
Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
    who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
    and by the torches that you have kindled!
This you have from my hand:
    you shall lie down in torment.
(Isaiah 50:10-11)

 

   Today’s Scripture stood out as a bittersweet contrast between the darkness dwellers who look to God as their light, and those who look to themselves. My focus turned to how this prophecy was fulfilled during Jesus’ ministry in the way people responded to him then, and to what Scripture says about the way we will see this in our world even now.

   Here are a few more Scriptures that encourage us to be sure that we come into God’s light through Jesus Christ and walk in that light no matter how dark the world gets.

   Psalm 18:28 encouraged God’s people to declare, “For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.” God’s children recognize that God our Father is the only source of light, and we strive to know him this way as our world grows increasingly dark all around us.

   Psalm 118:27 adds, “The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us.” This is why we trust in the Lord from our darkness. He is light, and he has made his light shine upon his people. This was true then, but it was expressed so gloriously when Jesus Christ came as “the light of the world”. God has truly made his light shine upon us!

   And here is a motivation that encourages us in the here-and-now because of what we will experience in the there-and-then of paradise, “And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Revelation 21:23). We will see with our own eyes everything the Scriptures teach about Jesus as the image of the invisible God, the radiance of his glory, and the exact imprint of his divine nature. Glorious!

   God’s people do not need to fabricate lights in the darkness. Instead, “we walk in the light, as he is in the light,” and while doing that “we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin” (I John 1:7).

 

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