Today's daily lesson is from Psalm 36 verse 9b:
"In your light do we see light."
As we all know, the moon is only a secondary source of light, reflecting light from the sun back from its own dark and rocky surface. When we look at the moon we see light; yet the moon itself is actually dark. We aren't really seeing the moon's light but rather the sun's light reflected. In a weird sense then moonlight is actually in fact sunlight. We see light of night because of another light -- the light of day.
What is true in the physical world is also true in the spiritual one. As the psalmist said, "In [God's] light we see light," -- even in darkness.
Jacques Lusseryan was a blind French resistance fighter imprisoned by the Nazi's in Buchenwald. In his memoir Lusseryan tells how though blinded at age eight he was nevertheless able to cultivate within himself an ability to sense where objects were and at what distance. He called this the light within himself. Yet when he was arrested by the Nazis, his own anger and fear diminished the light within Lusseryan and he found himself no longer able to navigate the interior of Buchenwald as he had the outside world. He had lost his light. Part of his memoir is about Lusseryan's learning to recover the light within.
Those with the light in them can see light. Though their lives and circumstances may be dark, they yet are able to see the light of hope. The light they see in the world does not come from the world, but is instead -- like the moon -- a secondary light. The source of the light they see in the world is from another place -- the light of God within.
Our world is very dark right now with heinous evil on the loose and new disease at our doorstep. Yet even in the darkness, those who cleave to the light still see light; and the darkness does not overcome it.
Praise be to our God who is "the very light of very light" even in a very dark world.
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