A Monday Moment: Let There Be Light

Last night, I went to see Gungor in concert. They are a wonderfully creative band led by Micheal and Lisa Gungor. The concert was beautiful. It told the story of creation, the fall, redemption and the bride of Christ, and our final re-creation. It was the complete message of the Bible in about a 2 hour concert/worship service. It was powerful.

One of the most powerful moments of the concert was at the very beginning. With the stage completely dark, they began their song, "Let There Be." As the song built up to the introduction of light into the world, the stage and the audience were flooded with a burst of brilliant light, breaking through the darkness...washing over us! 

Genesis 1: 1-5

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Creation of the World

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Have you ever stopped to ponder the symbolic nature of the day and the night...of God's separating the light from the darkness in Genesis 1? He saw that the light was good. Jesus became the light to our darkness. He illuminates us. He pulls us out of the darkness of sin, the darkness of depression, the darkness of shame and fear and hiding.

"Where there is darkness...let there be light. Where there is nothing...let there be LIGHT!"

I have not stopped singing that song since we left the concert last night, and how completely appropriate is it that my reading this morning in the book, "Lioness Arising," has to do with living in the light!


Lisa Bevere says in this book:

"The enemy of your soul wants you to remain in  the shadows. Darkness complicates and confuses what is simple and obvious by light."

She writes this prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father,

   I come to you in the name of Jesus. Forgive me for hiding. I want to come into the light. I throw open any closed door, and I step into the light and goodness of your love. I embrace my right to be forgiven, and I choose to walk in truth because it alone establishes me in freedom. I am yours. I surrender to your love and will follow your ways. Light the path laid out before me. Amen.

In His light we have freedom, but darkness complicates and holds us captivate. Don't give in to the enemies shadows today!

I will leave you today with many scriptures about living in the light! Read them, memorize them, pray them, and live them!

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”   John 8:12

 ⁶  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not become partners with them; ⁸ for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light⁹ (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), ¹⁰ and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹  Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.¹² For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. ¹³ But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, ¹⁴ for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

“Awake, O sleeper,
    and arise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”

                                                     Ephesians 5:6-14

 ⁵  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. ⁶  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.                                                  1 John 1:5-7

 ²³ And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴ By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,²⁵ and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.                Revelation 21:23-25

Let There Be Light!!