And God said, "Let there be light," (Gen1:3)
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In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. (John1:4-5)
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6 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2Cor4:6)
2Corinthians4:6
Our series for the next few days is going to be about light.
In particular, how the Bible uses light to illustrate His Creation and Salvation.
Just think about light for a moment...
The gradual growing of light at dawn, tentative at first and then bursting triumphantly across the horizon at sunrise...
Or a candle in a dark room...
Or light refracted in a rainbow...
Or the glorious colours in the hour before sunset as the oranges, yellows and finally indigoes and violet bend around the curve of the earth.
Think about the Tenebrae service at Easter when the hopelessness of total darkness is defeated by the lighting of a single match because we know that Christ is risen!!!
If you were a movie-maker how would you portray the first light of creation? Slow and tentative like the dawn with the highpoint of sunrise and gentle music crescendo-ing? Or would you have dark and then light blazing into the scene with trumpets or even triumphant rock music?
And how about how you'd portray the light of God's forgiveness and love spilling into a human soul? How would you picture the Light as it shone in your own life?
Take a moment to think back on your conversion and how the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ shone in your heart....
And give thanks!
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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