an exploding and exsposing light

Another 4th of July has passed. As a kid, a teenager, a young adult, a father, and now a grandfather … I have seen more fire-works than I can count. There is one, however, that gets my attention every time. In the middle of the darkness, they light the fuse of a single rocket that goes almost silently straight up into the air … hesitates … and then suddenly explodes with such a brilliant light and powerful force that it vibrates the very ground I’m standing on. Instantly … but briefly … the darkness gives way to a revealing light … exposing people and faces that were once hidden.

God sent His Son Jesus as a light … an exposing and revealing light … from which truth cannot escape. What the light lays bare is our sin and absolute unworthiness. But this light also offers forgiveness and freedom from the bondage of sin. No one or nothing else can make this kind of offer.

Pauls said it best in Ephesians 5: 8, 13, 17 …
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light. … everything exposed by the light becomes visible … Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”