Made for Light

“You were made for light and to be made light.”
Loren Thornburg

I am reminded on every gloomy day how I was made for light. Now, I enjoy some rain every now and then, especially when it comes with thunder and lightning. However, there is something about the lack of sunlight that affects me. I feel tired and I just want to snuggle up on the coach ,which isn’t an option sometimes. There is scientific backing to our need for light and the Vitamin D that we get from sunlight. Without it our bodies become weak emotionally and physically. As I was trying to get something untied in the darkness of my room it felt so difficult, but when I brought it in the light it seemed so easy and obvious on how to untie it. We need light! It stimulates sight. It makes things visible. We were made to function in the light, yet so often we find ourselves trying to untie knots in the dark. At times we are drawn to the things that keep us from being able to see. This can come in hundreds of ways...fears and concerns, harmful activities, secrets. Yet when this is all done in the light where others and yourself can see there is a “lightness” that comes. It doesn’t feel so heavy. We were made for light...it makes things light.

“For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.”
Psalm 36:9 NLT

God is the light and life. Without light there is no life. Those two go together and you go together with Him. You were made for Him. He is the light by which we can see truth. It is by Him who is truth that we can see things as they really are without tainting. If He is the light by which we see, without Him we are living in the dark. I think about times I have tried to do things without Him and how hard those were compared to times where I have invited Him in. Not that things got easy because He was involved, but that there was a lightness and a freedom in the midst of the struggle. For His “burden is light.” It is a fountain of life that never stops. His life is the way that we can see things through. Without Him we are stumbling in the darkness still trying to untie the knot that could be untied with ease if we would step into the light, His light. He never stops being light. He never stops helping us to see. He never stops bringing life and more life. He never stops and you never stop being made for light. When you have His light in you He shines that to others that they can see too. You were made for light and to be made light.