The Light Flows Through You!

Practically the first words of the Bible are Let there be light!  or, more accurately:  Light! Be! -- words spoken into the abyss of chaos and darkness, over which hovers the Spirit of God, the "Ruah," a word which means spirit, breath, wind, breeze, zephyr.

The first words of Scripture portray the Creator, the Word, and the Ruah, the Spirit, hovering over and speaking into the darkness.

And the rest of Scripture unfolds the same truth over and over again.  The Creator breathes forth His Word into the darkness as a soft breeze or a mighty wind throughout history.  Sometimes, He breaks open the darkness and chains of men's souls; sometimes, He leads His people out of the dark evil of slavery and oppression.  At some points of history, He establishes truth in the midst of the choas of confusion, and leads His people ever more surely into the Light.

It is not just history -- the history of the world and of mankind; it is now, at this moment.  God is He Who Acts, now and forever.  He is not "sitting on His throne, waiting to see what we will do."  He is hovering, breathing, acting, speaking even now into the darkness that envelopes us within and without.  He is speaking even now into our hearts and minds, into our history, into the evil that threatens us on every side. In Him, we live and move and have our very being.

And if we are ready and willing, His Word and His Light and His breath (Ruah) flow all around us, in us, and through us -- and he makes us Light and Word and Truth to a world chained in darkness.

If we have not experienced His love, or His truth, or His word, or His Spirit dwelling in us, how then are we to believe the words of Scripture:  God is love, and he who loves is born of God and dwells in God and knows God (1 Jn.4:7)?  Jesus said:  "He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and will show myself to him (Jn.14: 23)....if anyone loves Me, he will obey my teaching.  My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him...These words are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me."

"All that belongs to the Father is mine.  That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you" (Jn. 16:15).  And if we know these things and abide in God, and if God abides in us, then why would His Light, His Truth, His Word, and His Breath not fill the world around us and inside us?  It is a glorious truth and revelation that we could not dare to imagine or to believe if it had not been revealed to us by the Son of God Himself. 

But if it has been revealed to us, who are we to deny its truth?  Are we to say to the Son of God, "I will not accept your words!  You do not know what I know!  You are deluded!  It is right that we crucified You, for You are a liar and a thief, and the truth does not dwell in You!"

It has been said before and will be said again until the end of the ages.  But still, the Son of God says again and again in our darkness:  LIGHT! BE!  And again and again until the end of time, the Light, the Word, and the Spirit of God will pierce the darkness, and we will live!  His truth will dwell in us, and the darkness will never again overcome us.