Light Out Of Darkness
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“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.“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us” (II Cor. 4:6,7).
Any
instructed Christian reading this passage from the pen of the Apostle
Paul naturally goes back in his mind to the time when God first said:
“Let there be light,” and dispelled the darkness of the primeval world.
He
might also recall the incident related in the book of Judges, when
Gideon’s army went to battle against the Midianites, each man with a
sword in one hand, and a lamp hidden within a pitcher in the other. At
Gideon’s command the soldiers broke the earthen vessels and the lights
shone out to strike terror into the hearts of the enemy, who could not
account for the crash and the blaze of light at this midnight hour.
For
every believer God has caused light, wonderful light, to shine out of
the darkness and fill the heart, just as once He said to the dark and
chaotic earth: “Let there be light — and there was light.”
But
we believers have come into “the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God” by coming to know Christ. Our Lord rightly said: “No man cometh
unto the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). God is unknown and unknowable
apart from Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh. It was He who
lived a perfect life and then died a sinner’s death in order to bring us
into relationship and fellowship with God.
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