My husband recently purchased several LED light bulbs. I didn’t really pay any attention until he replaced the burned out bathroom bulb with one of the new LED ones.
I was surprised by how bright it was!
So bright that the bathroom that I thought was clean now looked dingy and dirty.
It’s amazing what light reveals.
Last fall I spent several days washing all 50 windows in our old farmhouse. It was late afternoon when I finally finished the ten windows in the sun room.
The next morning as I stepped into the room to admire my hard work, I looked to the east and was shocked to see that one of the windows was absolutely filthy.
Then I remembered a phone call that had interrupted my work the day before. In the distraction, I must have forgotten to finish that window.
What was unnoticed in the dusk, was painful highlighted in the full sun of the morning.
It’s amazing what light reveals.
Have you ever lost something in the cavernous depths of the closet?
Stubbed your toe on the bed while answering a child’s cry at midnight, then fumbled finding the door knob in the blackness?
It’s amazing what light reveals.
It both illuminates and exposes.
It can drive away the scary monsters in a toddler’s room at night.
It allows a plant to feed itself with photosynthesis and grow.
It guides ships safely into harbor.
Just a few weeks ago we sat in a dark church on Christmas Eve holding candles and reflecting on the birth of the baby in the manger.
The Light of the World.
“I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” John 8:12
Why are we stumbling around in the darkness of unbelief?
Why are we being tossed around by the angry seas of circumstances?
Why are we allowing the monsters of fear, uncertainty, discouragement, and worry scare us?
We have the Light of the World!
Away with the darkness, enough of the night!
Let there be Light!
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He is the light…all we have to do is see.
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