Throughout the Bible, the Lord uses contrasts to teach us truth about ourselves and about Him. Love verses hate. Good verses evil. Light verses darkness. What do we learn about ourselves and about the Lord in the contrast of “light verses darkness”?
Darkness is the absence of light, but Scripture also defines darkness as an absence of good. In other words, darkness is everything purely evil.
Question: Is “evil” a “who” or a “what”? Evil is a “who” AND a “what.” Evil beings do evil things. The devil is evil. Murderers, liars, thieves, and adulterers are evil, evidenced by their sins.
Since our finger is busy pointing right now, can we point out anyone else who is evil…?
Let’s do the hard thing and point the finger at ourselves. That’s right. Each of us is evil, full of darkness. How do we know this? We do evil things. We commit acts of darkness that come from our dark hearts of sin. We may not murder, but we hate, which is the sin of murder in the heart. We may or may not have committed adultery, but we have lusted, the sin of adultery in the heart. Gulp.
We evil people need pure light if we are going to see the light of heaven. We need the LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Jesus Christ! Jesus, the world’s light, is not evil in the slightest way. Jesus, holy God himself, shrouded his glory in sinless human flesh and went to the cross, and died for sins. For three days He allowed His life to be extinguished so that evil people like us could see the light of heaven. But now He is arisen! His light will never go out!
Today His light shines out in the world through the Bible! Through the Bible, Jesus THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD seeks to shine in our hearts by bringing us to faith! He is the light of holiness and forgiveness which saves us from our dark sins! Whoever believes in him shall see the light of his glory in heaven!
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
—2 Corinthians 4:6