Sons of Light, Sons of Day

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

First up, some good news to celebrate about! Right after the last post where I declared placing my trust and faith in Lord Jesus Christ, the email came in on the very same night. How our Lord shows us His blessings and His provisions and the glad tidings at the right place and the right time!

While the internship is confirmed, I guess its inevitable for me to feel a sense of uncertainty. What am I going to do there exactly? How am I going to live alone? Can I communicate well without mastering Spanish yet? So many questions unanswered. Yet I mus be sure: that my Lord Jesus Christ is with me every step that I take. No matter what I go, Jesus is always with me through all things. He shields me from all calamities and misfortunes; He blesses me with all things good and more. With that, I should have no doubts, no fears.

In the sermon just passed this week, the focus was as mentioned in the title of this post. In 1 Thessalonians 5:5,

⁵You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

This verse is established as a fact. We as believers will never walk in darkness. No form of sin would bring us back to the path of darkness when we used to live in unbelief. I did not know that even fear and uncertainty could be considered as sins, since it necessitates an unbelief and a lack of faith in God's works. However, while we continue to commit these sins on a daily basis based on our flesh and mundane thoughts, the finished work of Jesus Christ ensured that we are the sons of light! Jesus said for himself in John 8:12,

¹²Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Certainly this light that was being referred to is Jesus, and not the light that all of us are aware and know of today. Pastor shared about how the notion of light differs as seen in the story of the ninth plague in Egypt during the time of Moses. In Exodus 10:21 - 23,

²¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.”²²So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ²³They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

The story depicted clearly that it was unlikely that the light was the conventional light that we all knew about, since during that period, the Egyptians were all richer and more affluent that the Israelites. They were slaves in a foreign land. Yet the grace of God kept them from the darkness and they were in light. Jesus Christ was with them.

I remembered Pastor Prince once talked about the opening of the Bible - Genesis 1:1-3,

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.²The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Many of us continue to think that He created Day and Night, and the relationship between it and the sun and the stars. However, God did not create the sun and stars until the fourth day, which must have meant that this light existed independently of the source of light we know of in our sciences.When referring Genesis 1:3 in the traditional language of Hebrew in which the Old Testament was written, the first two alphabets of the phrase "Let there be light" was יה which meant Jesus. The entirety of Yahweh, our Lord Jesus is written as יהוה. The reference of this light is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ!

As in 1 John 1:7,

⁷But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Knowing that our path is secured by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ and His redemption, I can go forth and make plans, and dream without fear or uncertainty because I know whatever that happens, it will always be in the control of my Lord.