God's Light

The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory....Isaiah 60:19

For with you is the fountain of life, in your light we see light...Psalm 36.9

What is God's Light? God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.This light existed before He made the sun and moon. God's light existed before the world was created. God made the Sun and Moon, but it was not His light, even then. There is another Light which is natural to Him--  a light of brightness and knowledge, clearity and heavenly, a Light such as mortal man attains it not unto, except as the supreme gift of the Grace of God shall visit him. It is this Light which rests upon the people of God.The Light shones in the darkness and the darkness  comprehended it not. There is a light which lights everyman that comes into the world, but God's marvelous Light comes only to His chosen and gladdens only those whose eyes have learned to look to Jesus and who find their soul's confidence and salvation in Him who is the very Light of God.

The man who has not this Light, may believe there is no God. He may even believe there is God but does not care about him. He believes that there is heaven, but it never enters as a factor into his life to operate upon him. He believes that there is such a thing as sin and he says,"Oh, yes,yes ,yes!"we are all sinners, no doubt. But he who has this marvelous Light sees sin so as to tremble at it and hate it. It is a present thing with him which he abhors! He also sees the atoning blood of Jesus and knows that by it he is cleansed from sin and he rejoices in this as a blessing.

God's Light is marvelous basically, as a result of our formed darkness: Out of darkness, light comes out not. Out of our dark nature no marvelous light ever shone. This light came from above and was so marvelous! Imagine, the condition of a man who has lived all his life in a coal mine, supposing he never had a brighter light than his flickering candle and then, after a while, to be brought up the shaft, and to see the brightness of the sun at mid-day.I can hardly picture his amazement, you may fancy what it would be like,but you can hardly realize it. Or suppose a worse case, that of one born blind who had heard of a thing called light, but who could never imagine what it was like till all of a sudden he receives his sight so that he could perceive the light. It would be very difficult to describe all his emotions and certainly such a person would be full of wonder and amazement. It would be indeed marvelous light to him. Such is God's Light.

God's Light has excellence over all other light: This Light, which God gives to His people, is far superior to the light which comes from education, meditation or which can be produced by any human effort. The best light that a man ever get by his effort is no better  than a candle or a flickering gaslight. But the Light of God is marvelous and is the illumination caused by the Holy Spirit shining into the  inner-most recesses of the soul in  full overwhelming splendor! It is the Light of God and there is no other light that is like that.

God's Light is marvelous because of what it reveals: For the man who has the Light of God shining in his soul sees that which is invisible. This illuminated man  sees God, whom ordinary human eyes can never see. He looks back into the ages gone past and sees God making all the  worlds that ever existed, while those who are reckoned as wise men, but who are without that Light of God, spin ingeniously but worthless theories about how those worlds grew out of "Big Bang" and "Evolution". These men have such wonderful theories that it really seems surprising that they do not, themselves make a new world, since they profess to have found out so many ways of making them! But the opened eyes see " that the world was formed by the word of God", and sees God's hand in all the histories of all the centuries, and even sees God's hand in the things recorded in the newspapers and cable news that startle us. The man who has his eyes opened sees Heaven and Hell, eternity and everlasting life. He sees them not with dull  optics, like these eyes of ours which, afterall, do not really see, for it is the soul behind the eyes that really looks out through that window and perceives what is  to be seen. But in this marvelous Light of God, the soul sees without any optics and without any glass, it has flung away its telescope, for it has come so near the object upon which it is gazing that there is no need of any intervening medium. He walks and talks with angels and far better speak with  God himself. This is indeed marvelous light which  has made us see things that to ordinary mortal eyes are invisible.

He who  lives in this marvelous Light sees God here, there, and everywhere, within him, he feels the Presence of God. He has an immediate consciousness that  God is with him. Such a man sees God to be reconciled by the death of His son. He sees God to be his Father, for he is made a partaker of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. A further characteristic of this light enables one to see right into the heart of things. By this world's light, you only see the apperance of things it presents, but the Light of God lets you see innermost heart of truth and what is still better it brings the Truth of God right into your soul. By this Light , you not only see the Doctrine of Electron, but you also know yourself to be elect. You see the great truth of redemption and you know yourself to be redeemed. By this light , you see regeneration and you feel the pulsing of the life of God within your spirit and though mortal eyes  have not seen Heaven, neither have the ears of men heard its rapturous harmonies nor has the true conception of Heaven entered into the heart of man, yet the Spirit of God brings Heaven down to us and raises us up to Heaven so that we sit among the heavenly in Christ Jesus and our conversation is in Heaven, from where we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lastly, the marvelous Light of God never goes out: Because it is the Light of God, the devil cannot blow it out. If all the devils in Hell were to try and blow out a single spark that is in a true believer's heart, they might puff till they died of puffing, but they would never put that spark out! God had lit it and its unquenchable.

God has not promised there will always be sunshine in our lives,but He has promised that His light will always be before us.The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine upon us.


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God bless,
Enim