The Importance of Light

Isaiah 58:8 - Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily…

    Every intelligent person recognizes that things in this world of ours are not as they should be and that something has gone terribly wrong but, most people do not understand why. The Genesis record, however, makes it quite clear that the current state of things is because man chose his own way and did not obey God’s original instructions. Due to Adam’s disobedience a door was opened wide allowing spiritual death and its many tragic offspring, such as sickness, to come in unrestricted; consequently and unfortunately, the entire human race is now born to die; we are subject to sickness and susceptible to it. There is, however, an answer for us.

    To live a life of wholeness and health is the will of God for every child of God; it is what He desires for us, just as every father desires for his children. This fact must forever be settled in our heart and mind. However, when seeking healing for the body, this verse seems to give us an order and sequence of healing. Light must break forth before health can spring forth; light precedes health. Many times we are seeking healing when we should be seeking light. Light represents understanding; it is divine insight into reasons and causes; it gives solutions to problems and answers to questions. Every difficulty or hindrance is complicated until the light shines, and once the light shines it ceases to be complicated and becomes simple. In fact, all solutions are simple once they are discovered. G. Campbell Morgan once wrote that the supernatural is really just the super-understandable; it is above our natural understanding.

    Light also, is the will of God for every child of God; He does not want us to walk in darkness. One verse of scripture tells us that ‘the people that sat in darkness saw great light’. When it is dark out we must walk very carefully; actually kind of feeling or groping our way. It is dangerous to walk in darkness and very easy to trip and fall. Darkness represents ignorance or a lack of knowledge. We have all heard the phrase that what we don’t know won’t hurt us but that is absolutely not true. What we don’t know may actually kill us. If I don’t know that the lug-nuts holding the front wheels on my car are completely loose, they may fall off at any time and cause a terrible crash. If I don’t know that the air I am breathing contains a deadly gas, I may never wake up from my sleep that night. If I don’t know that a wealthy relative has died and left me millions of dollars then I may continue to live as a pauper and struggle for the rest of my life. Lack of knowledge keeps us from accessing what is legally ours. God wants us to have light; He wants us to have understanding and insight. This knowledge will help us to make the necessary changes and adjustments so that we may navigate safely through the various seasons of life and enjoy the benefits that are being offered by our Heavenly Father.

    Light brings clarity to our circumstances and environment. Light reveals what has transpired and it illuminates what lies ahead. The Bible says that God is light and He is the revealer; we don’t reveal these things to ourselves. Jesus once thanked God that He had hidden certain things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babies; light comes only to the humble; those who are willing to receive it and do not think that they already know it all. Light exposes things for what they are and it never lies; we even talk about things being seen in their true light. It is not always the case but, many times when we are seeking God for an answer, be it physical healing or any other need, it may call for an adjustment of our attitude or a fine-tuning of our lifestyle. The change may be necessary in order for us to position ourselves to receive; we cannot change God’s will, but we can align ourselves with it. It is impossible to change what we are not aware of so, this insight from God is very important because it makes it possible for us to make those changes. One thing we already know for sure; the adjustment and the change will always be on our part, not God’s; He never changes. The Psalmist said, ‘The entrance of your words brings light and gives understanding’.

    The other thing about the light is that you cannot force it, just as you cannot force the sun to come up over the mountain; it will come at the right time and nothing can stop it. We sometimes use the phrase, ‘It dawned on me’ and by that, we mean that we have finally understood what it was that we had trouble with before, or that we see the solution now. We should never underestimate the power of simple light to bring about the potential for far-reaching changes. Light doesn’t change what is; it simply reveals what is.

    Be encouraged friends, God is the Revealer and the Healer and He only desires the best for you and me. As we seek the Lord intimately and draw close to Him through His Word, light will shine and those rays of light are rays of understanding and love; they are rays of strength and power and they are rays of deliverance and healing. The Sun generously and continually shines and all we have to do is bask in its warmth and absorb the healing light.