There’s a great song by Dunsin Oyekan
titled Imole De! I heard it a few weeks ago in church and really loved it. The
opening line of the song says “where’s darkness at the sight of light”. Have
you ever noticed that no matter how dark a room is, the moment light comes in,
darkness disappears? That is because light is more powerful than darkness. A
brief search of the word darkness and you’ll find that darkness is the absence
of light. Same search of the meaning of light and you will find that while
darkness is the absence of light, light is not the absence of darkness; light
is an illuminating agent. Why is this important?
All the way back in Gen. 1:3 (NKJV),
the first recorded words that came from the mouth of God was: “Let there be
light”. The first thing God did was to bring light into the world. This was
however physical darkness. Fast forward to the New Testament, this time around
the darkness that enveloped the world was a spiritual darkness. Instead of
repeating Himself, He sent His son Jesus Christ to be the Light of the World
and “That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the
world” (John 1:9).
This verse brings it home to you and
I in two ways:
The first relates to us as believers.
When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He illuminates our lives and
renews our mind. Matt. 5:14 (NKJV) says: “You are the light of the world”. As
the light of the world, we have an assignment to not hide under a basket (Matt.5:15) but to do like Jesus, go out into the world and let our light shine
before men (Matt. 5:16). We have a duty to go out into the world and represent
Jesus. Represent Jesus in such a way that those who are yet to give their lives
to him, will want to do so and in doing so, receive the Light into their life.
In doing so, we will win souls into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The second is that even though we are
the light of the world darkness will still try to fight back. We will face
challenges in the world, but be not afraid, you will overcome. In John 16:33,
Jesus said “...but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”; just as Jesus
did, so will we. And in doing so, fulfill John 1:5 (AMP): the light shines on in
the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or
appropriate it or absorb it (and is unreceptive to it).
As we go into a new week, the charge
is simple, go out into to the world and become the light and also stand strong
in faith knowing that whatever the darkness throws at you, just be of good
cheer, Jesus has overcome it and so shall you!
