It’s the last day of the Light Scripture challenge! How have you been doing in meditating on Jesus Christ our Light?

Light Day 31: Psalm 18:28-33

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

This final passage on light is one that reveals complete trust in our God: He will light our candle.

Throughout this challenge, we’ve seen:

• Christ as the true light
• Christ as the fountain of life continually bubbling over with light reflected
• how light comes as we agree with God that we have sinned
• the importance of believing in the light
• how living in darkness is a choice
• how it isn’t enough to just read or study Scripture
• how declaring the light carries us into it
• how light is like a seed
• how even death becomes light
• how His law is an important source of light in our lives
• how to live the shining life
• how serious it is to confuse darkness and light 
• the condition God gives for causing our light to break forth as morning
• the blessings of pouring out our souls for others
• how His Spirit is our light
• how the darkness we live in depends on the state of our eyes
• what God’s greatest work for us is
• how He makes darkness light before us
• how light that condemns is actually our true salvation
• eight blessings light brings
• the glorious contrast brought by the rising of Christ our light
• how God is our everlasting light
• how changing our mind is receiving light
• how light is the surety of God’s covenant
• how to receive unmatched wisdom
• how to reflect the Son even in a dark cellar
• how to be singly focused
• how our mind is our candlestick
• how to have joy in depression
• how to love as Jesus loves

Today, let’s examine how another aspect of how we receive light.

Picture yourself as a candle – not a lighted candle, but a cold, lifeless candle, hidden away in a box. Your sides may be smooth, your color may be rich, but you aren’t being used for the purpose for which you were designed. You have no life.

But then, a hand reaches for you. It brushes the dust away. It places you over the heat, and you feel yourself melting away. You feel as though you have nothing left of who you were.

Yet the hand reaches out and pours you into a new mold – a differently-shaped mold, a mold shaped like the One that holds you. Then you feel alone again – alone and abandoned for a long while.

At long last, you feel a movement, and you realize the hand has been there all along. With pressure and squeezing, you’re released from the mold and moved again – but this time not to a dark place: to a candlestick. You feel a rushing of mighty air, a blaze of heat like a tongue of fire resting upon your head, and you feel life surge through you. You are alive in a way you never have been before. You have a new power flooding through you. Your eyes are opened, and you see. You know you could run through a troop or leap over a wall; you have been girded with strength and perfected.

This is a picture of life in our Lord, filled with His Spirit. He lights our candle; He fills us with Himself and for the first time, we possess strength and ability far exceeding anything our natural flesh could do. We have been awakened to a new life, and this life is well beyond anything we could begin to imagine! It’s an entirely new sort of existence – the Power and Spirit of Another flows through us!

That’s life when we’ve been lit by God.

Have you received it today in all the fullness of its reality? Grasp the potential and the blessings He offers to you right now!

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The Light Scripture Reading Challenge is at an end, but the challenge of walking in God’s light carries on!

Did you have a passage of Scripture during the challenge that particularly stood out to you? Let us know in the comments!

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