“In Your light, we will see light” is poetry magnificent. Yet, it can bewilder the impatient reader. God’s glory is described as brilliant light. (Exodus 16:7,10; 40:34-35) Moses thought it was a burning bush that was not consumed. “To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain” of the covenant. (Exodus 24:17) The shepherds who heard the message of the Messiah’s birth saw the glory of the Lord. “An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.” (Luke 2:9) Peter, James, and John witnessed the glory of Jesus when he went up the mountain. “There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.” (Matthew 17:2; Mark 9:2-3)
What is the Lord Jesus’ light? And what does it mean, “we will see light”? Apostle John wrote, “In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” (John 1:4-5) Jesus told a crowd at the temple, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” The Lord’s light is the fountain of life as the sun is a source of light.
The light (glory) of the Lord is the extension of the Spirit, the source of spiritual life, the essence of living, and the essential to man’s eternal life in bliss. The light of the Lord Jesus is perfected holiness. Seeing God’s light is living in completeness. Jesus is life. “To see light” is to experience Jesus. (16:10, 27:13, 34:8,12, 49:,9,19, 89:48, 90:15, 106:5)
David elsewhere wrote, “For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.” (56:13) Job 33:29-30 states, “God does all these things to a man– twice, even three times– to turn back his soul from the pit, that the light of life may shine on him.” The Prophet Isaiah wrote of the Messiah Jesus, “After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:11)
Step into Jesus’ light and experience life like you have never before and will ever more what to experience.
