Light

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. – Revelation 21.23-24

At the very beginning of the beginning, as we are going to see in just a few days, God said ‘let there be light.’ And here toward the end we read about light again.

When God said ‘let there be light’ there was light before the sun was created and in this passage we see another time when there is no need of the sun or moon.

The light that we will have will be the light of the glory of God and the Lamb will be the Light. That is interesting too because we know the gospel of John tells that Jesus was the light that came in to the darkness of the world.

This world is caught in the depths of spiritual darkness. The only way to lead people from the kingdom of darkness to the light of Christ is the gospel.

But it stays so dark. And the hard part is that this darkness will continue to hold sway until the Light is fully revealed and those who have come to Christ will walk in that marvellous light.

We live in a land of great darkness. Sometimes that darkness can be oppressive, but the day is coming when we will walk in the pure light of Christ and all this darkness will finally be put away.

While we are waiting for that light lets be sure that we are shining the light of the conquering gospel to those around us.