Light For Us

Light For Us

The first thing God did to make this earth habitable was to give it light. He wanted the earth to be fruitful, to bring forth life, and so light was necessary.

And God said, “Let there be light: and there was light.”
Genesis 1:3 KJV

Likewise God formed us to be inhabited by Him! So He commanded that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God should shine in our dark hearts by faith.

“God Himself that formed the earth and made it;
He hath established it,
He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited:
I am the Lord; and there is none else.”
Isaiah 45:18

The true light that lights every man is only in the face of His Son, Jesus Christ. He set His face as a flint to go to Jerusalem, where His face received the shame, blows, spit, and thorns, without complaint.

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

He willingly endured all that man, His creation, could inflict, to show the glory of the Father, full of grace and truth. That knowledge should bring forth grace and truth in our lives as well.

By Tom Steere

For Thou didst leave Thy throne above To teach us that our God is love; And now we see His glory shine In every word and deed of Thine.
By Mary J. Walker