Seeing The Light

We had been in bed for an hour when the alarms started going off. Alarms are designed to alarm as much as alert us to problems, and half-awake, I couldn’t make sense of them. Smoke alarm? Couldn’t tell, but got out of bed quickly and lost all sense of direction. There were no lights.

No little green light on the smoke alarm. No nightlight from the bathroom. I ended up touching glass instead of a wall and wondered how I had gotten over to the secretary. The alarm still going off.

I could hear David. He had been sleeping in his recliner to ease the pain in his neck and had made it into the kitchen.  I found the doorway and told him to stay there while I found a flashlight. Finally, a bit of light on the subject, but nothing showing from neighbors.

Although it was raining, it was not accompanied by lightning, yet we had lost electricity. Within a few moments our call was made to Wise Electric Co-op, where the representative said she had trouble hearing me because all the phones were ringing. We were able to shut off the alarm on David’s Bi-PAP machine, which he could not hear, but the lack of oxygen woke him up!

When I went back to bed, I thought of several verses:

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12 KJV)

But only for a short while, as He explained further:

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (John 9:5 KJV)

His plan puts us on the spot:

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16 KJV)

So, why can’t people see His light, bath in the light we reflect?

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV)

Accepting the Bible as truth, the gospel as being valid, we must accept there is an evil that does not wish us to see the light nor become part of His light. They prefer the darkness that hides their actions, never seeing those around them who have accepted the light of life.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6 KJV)
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. (Isaiah 9:2 KJV)