WALKING IN THE LIGHT

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.  (Genesis 1:3 NKJV)

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8 NKJV)

The Apostle Paul makes use of this passage in Genesis, when He says, that "God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." He seems to go back in his experience to that remarkable vision on the road to Damascus, when the light shone, and he saw the face of the Lord Jesus. It was as though he had passed through the experience of chaos, while kicking against the goad of conviction, and at that moment, which he could never forget, God said: "Let there be light." Looking up, he saw the light of the glory of God reflected in that dear face that looked down on him with indescribable love. It was life out of death; light replaced darkness, and peace chased away the last trace of the storm.

This is ever the result and climax of the work in our hearts wrought by the Holy Spirit. He leads us out of darkness; He takes of the things of Christ and shows them unto us. His one aim is to glorify our Savior, and to make Him the Alpha and Omega of our faith, as we walk in the light.

Visualize, if you will, a great body of water in a vast mountain range. It is continuously overflowing forming a 1000 foot sheet of water, a waterfall. This falling water is used to generate electricity for thousands in the community to light their homes and power their appliances. Do you have the picture in your mind? It seems to me that the great body of water resembles the love of God, in its longing to help mankind; that the descending waterfall might be used to illustrate the incarnation of our Savior, who was the sent One of the eternal Trinity; and that the electric current, invisible but mighty, is typical of the Holy Spirit, who brings to our hearts the light and power of the divine and nature. The lesson is obvious, that as the manufacturer or the scientist invents machinery to meet the conditions on which alone the electric current can do its work, so must we learn to adapt ourselves to receive and transmit the power and light of God, which comes to us through our union with Jesus.

PRAYER

May the Holy Spirit keep us ever walking in the light of Your countenance. May He fill our hearts with the sense of Your nearness and loving fellowship. Order our steps in Your way, and then walk with us, for in You there is no darkness at all. I pray in Jesus' name, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #335:
I am God and Father over all creation. 

Ephesians 4:6 (WEB)
one God and Father of all, who is over all,
and through all, and in us all.