Light For All Men

   "Let there be light" is the first recorded statement of God. "And there was light". And people ever since who prefer to see where they are going have been very glad.

"Let there be moral and spiritual light," God must have also said. The physical light is from the Sun. The moral and spiritual light is from the Son. This eternally important light has always been available to men.

God's revelation to lead men to himself was clear from the start. And on top of that He gave each man a conscience; the ability to seek light from above, and the revelation of himself in nature. The result is "that they were without excuse"

In addition throughout the Old Testament people were told to look for a bright, shining star that would rise out of Judah. The star over Bethlehem pointed the way to that Light from heaven when He was born on earth. He came and brought light to a dark world by His life and death--God..."commanded the light to shine out of darkness.... to give light of the knowledge of the glory of God.

No one rejects God's physical light. It is necessary and appreciated. What a tragedy that many reject the spiritual and moral light from above--so many try to light their own way to heaven.

God's light for men will remain for all future too. The New Jerusalem will have "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.

"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world," said Jesus. After that, the amount of light that shines is up to Christians in many ways. How much spiritual light do people receive as a result of their lives?

Men do not light a candle and then put a bushel basket on top of it, Jesus said. That would be ridiculous. But it is just as wrong when people claim to know Christ but hide that relationship. People should see that there is life and light in our lives by what we say, the places we go, the things we do with them and for them. The spreading of the witness of Jesus Christ depends upon us, and the eternal destinies of the man and woman next door depend upon how much spiritual light they see and receive.