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The Light of Hope

What is darkness but the absence of light, and what is everlasting darkness but the absence of Yeshuwah - God, our salvation? So, by all means, "LET THERE BE LIGHT" - the perfect Word of God. It was present at creation when God saw the futility of a world that lay in deep darkness. Even then, at its very foundation, God revealed His plan - there would be provision in this world for the light of hope. Therefore, because He so loved the world, He gave Jesus, who is "the Light of the World," to rescue it, and by rescuing it, saving it through the miracle of divine intervention.

What is light - scripturally speaking? Isn't it God's benevolence toward mankind? In the gospel of John this concept seems to be verified. Here we are told that Christ is: "...the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." Obviously, the light of the Lord Jesus Christ is not for seeing, His light is for believing. "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." Jn 12:46 This darkness is not unlike the primordial blanket that enveloped the world at its creation - a darkness that is genetically sealed in every soul, as natural to man as water is to a fish. We are born into it and we abide in it, and unless there is a devine intervention, we will languish and die in it. A revelation from God is required to extract us from our complacency - a revelation that answers the question of the ages. It is the same question that Jesus asked of His disciples:

When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Mat.16:13-15

There may have been other disciples who wrestled with the answer, but it was Peter, in a moment of divine inspiration, who blurted out, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Peter's outburst is a reminder of the events of that remarkable and prophetic day when the Lord entered Jerusalem on the back of a colt. Some of the Pharisees asked Jesus to rebuke His disciples who were praising and glorifying Him, but He responded, "I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." On this day, the power of the Holy Spirit was so overwhelming, so infused in the hearts and minds of the Lord's disciples that, like Peter at Caesarea Philippi, neither they, nor nature itself, could be restrained from crying out: "Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of theLord."