Luke 11:33…

Light has fantastic and phenomenal properties. It is impossible to imagine life without light.

As far as life is concerned, light has always been present because light preceded life, and light enables life both to exist and to thrive.

Since light has so many wonderful and necessary properties for life, we ascribe a literary quality to light.

We imagine ‘wisdom’ as a form of light, and we say wisdom ‘illuminates’ the ‘darkness’ - as if the absence of light equals the absence of wisdom.

For this reason, no one would take light and hide it or bury it or do anything to conceal it once it has been lit. Light is so special it is always given the lead position in our lives, because without it we cannot ‘see.’

Since our perception of light is a function of our sense of sight, Jesus warns us about the quality of the ‘light’ we choose to ‘see’ by. Of course this is the true function of light – it enables us to see.

But what if the things we choose to ‘see’ are not worthy of our God-given sight?

Jesus explains this would be ‘darkness,’ not in the literal sense, but figuratively. But this figurative sense of darkness has every bit as much potential to cause us real harm as literal darkness does – only more, since this (spiritual) darkness we invite has eternal ramifications.

Those who imagine no God are in this condition. By their own advanced educational ‘wisdom’ they imagine themselves not only to be ‘enlightened’ but also to be those capable and even insistent upon ‘enlightening’ others.

This is why Jesus says, “take heed the light you see is not darkness.” No one with any intelligence would take God’s true and pure light and replace it with an incandescent bulb. It is pure unadulterated ignorance which replaces God’s design with man’s ideas.

-Pastor Bill