A Reflection On Light - 365 Pocket Devotions

When I need Jesus to illuminate my thinking

Jesus is the only light this world has ever seen. We can’t find illumination anywhere else. He’s the One through whom God once said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. We’re the ones who shrouded this planet in a sinful haze of spiritual blindness. He came back into it with all the radiance of a million suns.

Plato told an allegory of people in a cave who saw each other as shadows. They thought they could see clearly enough, because shadows were all they knew. Like Plato’s cave dwellers, we think we’re well informed; and when we encounter light, we feel the pain of brightness in our maladapted eyes. We turn back to the darkness we’re so comfortable with.

This world no longer has anything to offer you. Its interpretations of life are but shadows; its knowledge is untouched by the light of truth. Reject it. Do you really want understanding? Open your mind exclusively to Jesus and let Him shine.

[Jesus said,] “I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark.”

John 12:46