Into His Wonderful Light

             "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, 

a holy nation, a people belonging to God,

that you may declare the praises of him 

who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

Once you were not a people, 

but now you are the people of God;

once you had not received mercy, 

but now you have received mercy.”

1 Peter 2:9-10

ĕklĕktōs¹⁵⁸⁸ – select; by impl. favorite: - chosen, elect.

thaumastŏs²²⁹⁸ – wondered at, i.e. (by impl.) wonderful: - marvel (-lous).

phōs⁵⁴⁵⁷ – (to shine or make manifest, espec. by rays; luminousness (in the widest application, nat. or artificial, abstr. or concr., lit, or fig.) – fire, light.

            (Written when I was working at Don Davis Auto Group.) When I get up, it’s still dark. The hall leading from my room to the kitchen has very little light, and I feel disoriented until I turn the corner into the den where the nightlight shines. Life apart from Christ is like stumbling down a darkened hallway. You attempt to feel your way through looking for glimpses of light here and there to help you. When you become one of God’s people, Christ’s illumines the way. You find a flashlight in his word that you can take with you everywhere you go (Psalm 119:105). You never have to grope in the dark again, for “God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” (1John 1:5a). The warmth of his love lights your days like the flowers above brighten the field.

           

Father, thank you for inviting me out of the darkness and into your marvelous light. May I be like the moon and reflect the light of the Son so that others might see him and join us in the warmth of your love.