Light is a major theme throughout the Bible. Here are a few thoughts at how this affects us at this Christmas time.
The lights at Christmas, including our home. Something about lights, kids love them, we love them, we love the joy if brings.
It was a short encouragement sent by a former Swiss missionary to Brazil that made me start to think of all that the Bible has to say regarding light:
If one candle burns, it can light hundreds of other candles without ever loosing any of it luster and glow.
Light travels at 186000 miles/sec, over 6 trillion miles in a year. The whirlpool galaxy is over 23 million light years away from us. Light is hot, fast, bright, needed for vitamin D, helps attitude, relaxes,
“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” Genesis 1:3
“The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.” Isaiah 9:2
“Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” Psalms 119:105
“The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:5
“There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.” John 1:9-10
“Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”” John 8:12
“While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”” John 9:5
“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.” John 3:19
“I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” John 12:46
““You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;” Matthew 5:14
“For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have placed You as a light for the Gentiles, That You may bring salvation to the end of the earth.’ ”” Acts 13:47
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” 1 Peter 2:9
“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5
”Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16
“but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7
“for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light” Ephesians 5:8
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17
“The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” 1 John 2:9-11
“And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.”Revelation 21:23
“And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.” Revelation 22:5
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“While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.” These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.” John 12:36
“(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),” Ephesians 5:9
“For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:6
“The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.” 1 John 2:10