[Songs in the Night - November 28]
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. I John 1:5
THE Scriptures represent God as being a light.
In
the tabernacle he was represented by a brilliant light
on the mercy seat, called the Shekinah glory.
Our
Lord Jesus, filled with the light of the Holy Spirit,
was called "the true Light."
And it was he that said
of his followers, "Ye are the light of the world....Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven."
Similarly the divine power at Pentecost was
represented by flames of light, cloven tongues of fire.
Similarly the Spirit of the Lord from his Word is in
the Scriptures pictured as the blaze of light from a
lamp.
As we read, Thy Word is a lamp to my feet,
a lantern to my footsteps.
The flame of sacred love,
the Holy Spirit of the Father and of the Son, was enkindled
in our hearts through the Word of grace and
the impartation of the Holy Spirit.
In proportion as
we have fed this flame (the Spirit) with the truth, we
have become burning and shining lights in the world—the
Spirit of the Lord in us. Z'09-188 R4419:4 (Hymn 36)