His gift: His Light in You

Carina Francke

1 Kings 8:12; Psalm 18:12

"Then Solomon said, The Lord has said that He would dwell in a dark cloud." 1Kings 8:12

"He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him - the dark rain clouds of the sky." Ps18:11

Pardon me? Didn't John the apostle say that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all? (1John1:5).  Of course He did! But darkness cannot exist where He dwells, because His presence turns darkness into glaring light. It absorbs darkness and penetrates the thickness and darkest of clouds and water. Wherever He is, darkness changes into the brightest light!

Can you understand why you become the light that shines in the world when He abides in you? Do you remember what we said about our 24/7 abiding Companion? Jesus said,"If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make Our home with him." (John14:23) The true Light Himself came to live in you!  He build Himself a permanent home.......YOU!

And yet in Luke 11:33-36 Jesus warns us to take care that "the lamp of the body, the eye" does not get bad because the whole body will then also be full of darkness.  It is our responsibility to see to it that our eye does not become bad. This 'eye' refers to our spiritual moral eye that observes the world around us and determines to what extent our lives are illuminated. When our moral spiritual eye becomes blind to the (wrong) decisions, way of life or winding roads the Word and Holy Spirit convicts us of, we are guilty of hiding the shining light in a secret place or under a basket.

The sorrowful result? Apart from the fact that we ourselves ( our whole body) becomes darkness, people also can't see the light anymore.......neither the Light who wants to shine through us.

What then happened to God who wants to live in darkness? Can't He just shine through that darkness of my eye? No! God created you with a will of your own and He honors that part of your being. Unfortunately It's that same will that prevents God from intervening when you allow darkness into your life. It's your choice to let the light shine through you.

Prayer:  Father, I thank you that You illuminated my life.  Help me to never let my spiritual eye be blinded. Amen.