Light is an important symbol in this season of Advent and
Christmas. We become very aware of the
importance of light, particularly with the long dark nights of winter. This is one of the reasons why it is so nice
to light up our homes with special lights at Christmas. At Christmas we also think about how Christ,
came into our dark world of sin.
In the wonderful opening verses of John’s Gospel we read:
‘In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome.’
Luke 11:33-36 is also about light. It is about the Light of Christ shining in
the world, and shining into our personal lives.
In these verses it emphasises the importance of light for
sight both in the physical sense and also in the spiritual sense. If we don’t have light, or if our eyes are
damaged or diseased in any way, we can become physically blind. Likewise, we can also become spiritually
blind if we do not have light. Jesus is
the light, and the eye represents our spiritual understanding and insight, that
is what Jesus means when he talks about the eye being the ‘lamp of the body’ The true light of Christ allows no darkness!
So the message of this passage is our we allowing the
light of Christ to fill our minds and fill our understanding? Or are we allowing other things into our
lives, which make our lives less sensitive and blot out the light of Christ’s
presence, for example greed, selfishness, pride, lust, resentment…
If you are having a hard time seeing God at work, it may
be that you need to check your vision.
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