https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/01/light
We know from science that darkness is the lack of light, meaning to say that without light, our natural eyes are not able to see. Darkness does not make objects or things go away, they still exist in the physical realm. It’s just that as humans we need to use our other senses like touch and hearing to feel or hear them, rather than “see” them. The obvious limitation is that without sight, our visibility if we could still use that word, is what’s within our finger tips. We could extend that a little by using a cane but that’s about as far as we can go. Our mobility and speed will thus be limited without eyesight. There is a Jason Momoa movie called “See” that tries to explore what it’s like to live in a world where humans are without eyesight.
But with light, we can see (actually in contemporary technology, we can actually see in darkness using infra ray but I’m not sure whether it works in complete darkness or it still needs some little light). The wonder of light is that we can actually see colours too! Colours are also a reflection of light as all the colours in the world are a combination of the colours in light itself (we learn about the colours from the rainbow). Thus it is pertinent to note that even God created light first after creating a formless, dark and empty world. Although it would have been possible for God to create physical things and objects first before creating light, He created light first. Even God wanted to see the beauty and splendour of the natural world, the animals, birds and life in the sea, the trees, the hills and the mountains, the fauna and flora as He creates them.
Spiritually, without light, we are in darkness. Our eyes are shut to God, the reality of God and the things of God. The scales covering our spiritual eyes need to be lifted up before we could see and understand the things of God. That is why conversion is never an intellectual discourse. It is a more a thing of the heart than mind, a matter of faith in believing in things unseen. Only the Holy Spirit can convict and convert.
The message today I believe is that as much as light is important to help us see in the natural beyond our physical reach (imagine if we were blind), light also plays an equally important role in our spiritual life and the light for our spiritual journey is His Word and the Holy Spirit. Without the Word and the Holy Spirit, we will not be able to see God, or relate to Him. We will not be able to see what God wants out of our lives, we will not have the vision of His plans and purposes. Like the blind man relying on his hearing and sense of touch, we will start to rely on our mind to relate to God. We will depend on our natural senses to reach out to Christ and not on the Holy Spirit and His Word. We will then make decisions or take action based on our feelings or what’s in our mind, forgetting faith and the leading of the Holy Spirit. So the implication is that we will be ultra conservative and dare not move or spend or use money. We will unable to take leaps of faith outside of our comfort zones. We need the power of His Word and the Holy Spirit as our light to maneuvere ourselves through the darkness. In fact with His Word and the Holy Spirit, we could even have the eyesight of the eagle and see much, much farther and further away!
Ronnie's Thoughts 