Proverbs 4:18; Luke 11:36: "The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day . . . . If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight is shining on you."
The path of the righteous begins with a glimmer of God's glorious light ahead, for God is "Light . . . . in Him is no darkness at all" (I John 1:5). Still, this life is not without the dark corners of pain and disappointment, for there are those among us who love the darkness and hate the Light. They prefer to dwell in places where their evil deeds will not be exposed (John 3:20). And the evil one would want to cast the dark shadows of temptation and tribulation upon our path, so that we would lose the intensity of our reflection of Our Lord. Satan knows that if he can get our eyes off of the Light, our reflection will grow dimmer and we will become discouraged by the darkness that lay around us.
Still, the calling of the righteous is to reflect the glorious Light of God; and with each passing day, our reflection should be growing brighter as we draw ever closer to the Light source. As we mature in the faith and cultivate our intimacy with Our Lord, our reflection illumines sharper to the darkened world around us. And then, when God wills for us to come to Him, we will experience the blessing of the fullness of His glorious presence. We will not need the light of a lamp or the sun "for the Lord God will give (us His glorious) light" (Revelation 22:5).
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