Meditation 224
2 Corinthians 4: 3-6
The last verse of today’s passage says “For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” This light which is the light of God is shown most openly in the life of Jesus. This light is the light of the gospel. It is the good news upon which we can base our lives.
The light of God directs us and reorients our lives. God’s light points us towards the truth that God has for us, and points us away from things that are of lesser value and worth. One of our new hymns written by Daniel Shiells describes the path we walk with God well.
One more step along the world I go,
One more step along the world I go;
From the old things to the new
Keep me traveling along with you
And it’s from the old I travel to the new;
Keep me traveling along with you.
As I travel through the bad and good, keep me traveling the way I
should;
Where I see no way to go
You’ll be telling me the way, I know
And it’s from the old I travel to the new;
Keep me traveling along with you.
Give me courage when the world is rough,
keep me loving though the world is tough;
Leap and sing in all I do,
keep me traveling along with you
And it’s from the old I travel to the new;
Keep me traveling along with you.
You are older than the world can be,
You are younger than the life in me;
Ever old and ever new,
Keep me traveling along with you
And it’s from the old I travel to the new; Keep me traveling along with you.
In God we have light that shows the way we are to go. The light of God may be experienced as the light of the morning that shows us what is around us, it may be the light of consciousness as we make a choice, or it may be the light of caring as we respond to the people around us. The light of God’s glory spoken of in Psalm 50 contiunues to lead the people of God in a powerful and redeeming way. The light leads us into the way of truth and we are able to share that light with our world.