The Lord our Light

During my quiet time yesterday, a thought came to my mind that hadn't visited there before. I've always loved Ps 104:2, which says, "Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain." Well, as much as I love that verse, I don't think I'd ever really taken time to behold it for very long. So, yesterday, I thought about Him, covering Himself with light as we would put on a coat. Wow...can you imagine the glory? Another favorite verse of mine is 2nd Peter 1:17, in which Peter refers to Jesus Christ as "the Majestic Glory." Don't these two verses 'hold hands?'

But, then I thought about the account in Acts of Saul's conversion. In Wuest's expanded translation of Acts 22:6, he translates the verse this way: And it came to pass that as I was proceeding on my journey and nearing Damascus, about noon, suddenly out from heaven there flashed around me like lightning a great light, and I fell to the ground and heard a voice...(etc) But what I want to point out from that verse is, what blinded Paul? It was not 'just any old light,' but, I believe, that same light that He covers Himself with as a cloak. I'd never put those verses together before and no wonder Paul was blinded! Yes, the sun alone could have blinded him, but this light was unexpected and knocked him off his horse! Yes, verse 7 says, "and I fell to the ground and heard a voice..." Then in verse 10, Jesus the Nazarene says to Paul, "Get up and go on into Damascus..."

John 1:4 says, "In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men." John 1:5 says, "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." Paul didn't comprehend it, at first! He certainly did later, but having had THAT experience, he had been blinded that he might be able better to see! spiritually! Then, John 1:7 says, "He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him (John the Baptist). Yes, our Lord said in John 12:46, "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness." Aren't you glad He has covered Himself with light?