Divine Light

 

The first words God says in the Bible are, "Let there be light." Darkness and chaos gives way to light and order.
Not many verses before the end of the Bible in the Book of Revelation that author in describing the heavenly Jerusalem says, "The city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since the glory of God is its light....They need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light."
Our word "God" comes from the Sanskrit word for day and suggests brilliance, light, sunshine. Light makes it possible to see. In the early dawn we see only black and white and gray. But as the light increases we see the world in color.
Sun shining on snow transforms it into a forest of sparkling diamonds.
Some days the volcanic peaks of Washington and Oregon cannot be seen from a distance, but when the light is right, they can be seen from a hundred miles away.
Light gives life. Without the sun our world would wither and die.
Since God is mystery we look for symbols to help us get some understanding of the Divine. Light is one of the clearest symbols of God, who gives us life and enables us to see both physically and spiritually.