“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
-2 Corinthians 4:6
God showed me something really cool about the difference between light and darkness and in that is an incredibly strong metaphor for the difference between God and Satan, between good and evil. Darkness has no existence in and of itself, or any power, or anything at all in itself. Darkness has no source. Darkness only exists in the absence of the light. The light has a source. God is the source of the light. Satan loses power when the light comes.
What does that mean for us? We want to be filled with the light of God. What does that mean though? All it really means is to be consistently pursuing God. When you are consumed in a relationship with someone you start to reflect some of the things about them. When you are around someone with a southern accent for a while, you start to mimic it without thinking, or maybe slipping a “ya’ll” in there every once in a while.
This principle is the same with God. The more time we spend with Him, the more we start to reflect Him. Reflect His glory, reflect His character, reflect Him. Now, we aren’t the source of this glory, or the source of His character, but we begin to take on those characteristics. Darkness still has to run from a reflection of light.
The only way Satan can come at you is by imitating the light, and even in the 1000’s of years time, He hasn’t gotten really very good at that. When we are spending time with the true light we aren’t going to fall for a less radiant, less brilliant, fake light.
God is the source of life and is the source of the light. When we live in His life and His light, darkness has no power over us.
