Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105
The Bible often speaks of darkness and light. Light comes from God as a gift to a dark world. In the first chapter of Genesis, the world was formless, empty, and dark, and God spoke light into being. Without light, there is no vision but, with it, one can discern safety from danger. God’s light helps you experience a greater sense of bodily and psychological wellness as well as discern the needs and emotions of others.
Light and darkness are also metaphors for one’s spiritual condition. “The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble” (Proverbs 4:19). The apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 5:11, “Have no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” Walking in light or darkness is a choice and, as always, choices have consequences.
The psalmist says in today’s verse that the Word of God is light. The apostle John called Jesus the Light, “In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:4-5). Later, John would write, “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
There are those in the world today who claim to possess a light you should follow. They are liars, and the truth is not in them (1 John 2:3-6). Know the True Light who came into the world to save sinners, Christ Jesus, and rely on Him and on God’s Word to illuminate your life. No one and nothing else can.
Today’s Verse: Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: John 1:1-14
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
