Today's Daily Lesson comes from a Psalm 18 verse 28:
28 For it is you who light my lamp;
the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
Just as the moon is not itself a source of light, neither are we our own source of light, but rather mirrors of God's light shining in and through us.
The moon, in fact, is actually quite dark on its surface. The astronauts who have walked it report that the rocky surface of the moon is grey to even almost black in color. It is also very rocky. These things mean only somewhere between 3 and 12 percent of the Suns light is reflected back. This doesn't sound like much, but it speaks to the powers of the Suns beams -- incredible. So much so, that at full moon, when the Sun's beams shine on the moon directly, we here on earth can see the moon shining and visible even in the middle of the day.
Our light comes from God. The light in our eyes comes from God. We by ourselves are actually quite dark -- scary dark, even. But the light comes and shines into our darkness "and the darkness cannot overcome it" (John 1:5).
Read that again; no matter how dark we are, the light of God is so powerful that the darkness cannot absorb it all.
"And the very light of very light was coming into the world."
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