Step into the Light

One of the hobbies I enjoy is photography.

One of the keys to successful photography is understanding the interplay between light and shadow.

I was thinking about that the other day when my thoughts turned to light itself.

It is because of light or rather the specific wavelengths of light that we are able to differentiate colors.

Light from the sun, or white light, is composed of all the different colors of light.

This is made evident when the sun’s light beams are refracted by raindrops Light of different wavelengths are separated into bands of color called rainbows.

When light from the sun shines on an object like a fire engine, the paint absorbs all the colors except red and what we see is the red light reflected from the paint.

Similarly, when sunlight shines on a yellow taxi, the taxi’s paint absorbs all the colors except for yellow. Again, what we see is the yellow light reflected from its paint.

If we want to be more accurate, what we should say is that the fire engine is non-red and that the taxi is non-yellow because each reflects, or rejects, the color we commonly associate with each.

That is kind of the way it is when we examine ourselves in the light of our own reasoning.

We can refer to ourselves as righteous.

But are we really?

Not according to the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 64:6 (KJV) - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind have taken us away.

We can even claim that we never sin.

But are we truly without sin.

Not according to the apostle Paul.

Romans 3:23 (KJV) - For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Just as red reflects from a fire engine or yellow reflects from a taxi, our shortcomings reflect in an obvious way when we subject them to the light of scripture.

Yet, we are not without hope.

There is a light not of our own which we can count on.

John 8:12 (KJV) - 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.

That is really good new for us.

The light that is Jesus shines brightly.

That light does not merely hide our sins, it removes them completely.

John 1:29 (KJV) - The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

So how do you overcome sin and unrighteousness.

Simple.

Step into the Light...

... and believe!

Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
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