Wed.'s Devo - Shine God's Light

Read John 8:12
Jesus throws this profound statement in the middle of two totally different situations so let's pick it out and talk about it. He say's "I am the light of the world: he that follows me will not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
The first time God speaks in the Bible he says, "Let there be light." Light flooded the earth that didn't come from a single source but was everywhere. This word light in the Hebrew means illumination; glory; happiness. He separated this light from darkness and called it Day. He called darkness Night. Darkness means misery; destruction; death; ignorance; sorrow; wickedness. Later on the 4th day he created 2 great lights in the sky for light and this light means a luminous body; a chandelier; a menorah. The sun and the moon are pictures of what light means. When Jesus said, I am the light, he was saying I am the manifest presence of all that is light: glory, understanding, happiness, illumination of truth. If you follow his ways you will walk in wisdom and revelation; your spiritual eyes will be illumined. In the OT they were to use pure beaten olive oil for the light in the tabernacle. This oil is a picture of the Holy Spirit that lightens our way to truth. We cannot read the Bible and understand it without the Holy Spirit breathing life on it and opening our eyes to see.
In the times that we are living, darkness is getting darker and light is getting lighter. Is. 30:26 says that "the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people and heals the stroke of their wound." I have always been fascinated by that verse and memorized it even though I didn't understand it. I still don't totally know what it means but I think it means that in the last days the church will shine forth the glory of God and all the past glory of all the church ages will culminate in the last day's church. In that day God will bring unity in the body and heal our hurts and offenses.
May we shine forth your glory in this dark world.