The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a
land of deep darkness, a light will shine. (Isaiah 9:2 NLT)
What a tremendous thing this
breaking in of Light upon us is, how it lifts us out, how it fills us with
glory, how it changes the outlook when there breaks in spiritual Light, Light
which never was on land or sea, Light from above. And the Lord Jesus is the sum
of that Divine Light. He is the Light. If only our eyes were opened to see the
significance of the Lord Jesus, what a tremendous difference it would make, how
we should be emancipated. The need is that: to see the Son of God as having
vested in Him the prerogative of Divine Light-giving, because He is the Light.
It is with Him to come right into our scene of darkness and drive the darkness
out. That is His glory, and you can know the glory of the Son of God, you can
worship Him, because your eyes are opened.
He is here. Just
as He, being the resurrection and the Life, means resurrection at any moment,
and not merely at the last day – you remember Martha said, "I know that he
shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day," and the Lord, in
effect, said, "Stop, I am the resurrection and the Life, and I being here, the
last day may be here so far as the resurrection is concerned; it is no time
matter when I am present, it can be now!" So He, being here, there may be a
new creation now with a new creation Light: not, I shall get light later on,
but now; by this glorious intervention from without. The glory of Jesus
Christ which He had with the Father before the world was, the glory of the Son
is that; that He has this sole Divine prerogative, right, power and ability to
bring Light. No one else can give it; it is not possible to attain unto that
Light. It is His gift, it is His act. That is His glory.