In Part 1, we looked at the TRIPLE POINT OF WATER as an illustration of the Trinity or the Godhead made up of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We also looked at how each member of the Trinity plays such a vital role in our Christian lives and how this doctrine is not just theological pie in the sky, but substance, reality, relevance, and sovereign meaning to us now. In Part 2, we will look at how LIGHT itself also can illustrate the Trinity or the Godhead.
1 John 1:5 tells us that God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all. When we normally think of light, we tend to think of white light, like the light of the sun, although white light and sunlight contain all the wavelengths and frequencies of the visible light spectrum (see link below).
Or when inside a building, I think of the brightest light bulb putting off white light in a dark room. Hebrews 1:3 reveals how the Lord Jesus is the radiance of God’s glory. Radiance is defined as vividly bright and shining and glowing, like when Jesus was transfigured in Matthew 17:1-2: Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.
I think of white light as representing ABSOLUTE MORAL PURITY. By definition, white light is perceived to be substantially free of color. It is fascinating how white light is the result of the right mixture of green, red, and blue light in a proper proportion. When this happens, the mixture provides the eye with the sensation of white, as seen in the graphic below.
Can you see the Trinity in the image above? God is light…represented by white light!
(Isaiah 60:19, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5)
The white light in the center can represent the Trinity or Godhead as a whole, but the white light is a perfect union of the red, blue, and green light, which can represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
….God the Father is light! (James 1:17, Daniel 2:22)
….God the Son is light! (John 1:9, John 8:12, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Acts 26:13, John 3:19)
….God the Spirit is light! (Ephesians 1:17-18, 1 Corinthians 2:10-13, John 16:12–15, Romans 8:14, 1 Peter 4:14, Isaiah 4:4, Revelation 4:5)
I love 1 Timothy 6:16, where Paul said that God dwells in unapproachable light. When Isaiah saw the brightness of God’s glory fill the temple In Isaiah 6:5, he cried out, “Woe is me!…I am ruined!” (I am a goner, as I see the brightness and the glory of the absolute moral purity and goodness of God in His unapproachable light. I can never get to Him or approach Him. The power of His light and holiness is too much!)
God is dwelling in an atmosphere of light too bright and glorious and overpowering for any created being to approach. Can you imagine how morally and spiritually naked and exposed Isaiah felt? He could feel every aspect and fiber of his being opened up, uncovered, and revealed - as that light shown on him….God’s purity and goodness and wisdom and love and glory and truthfulness. His light illuminates everything in us and around us.
When John saw the glory of Jesus Christ in Revelation 1:14-17, he said His head and His hair were white like wool or like pure white snow and His eyes were shining like a flame of fire. It was too much and John collapsed at His feet as dead. How would you feel in that presence? What would you do in that presence?
Therefore, if God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5) and we are His children, then all we have to do is simply walk (live) as children of light (Ephesians 5:5-14). As we do, the fruit of the light will be produced in us. The fruit is that which is always good and right and true and the fruit will enable us to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
John 1:5 promises that as we walk in the light (the light of the Father, the light of the Son, and the light of the Holy Spirit), the light will always be exposing the darkness around us, but the darkness will never be able to overcome us.
Ephesians 5:8 tells us, that even though we were formerly darkness, we are now “Light in the Lord” and can walk as “children of Light”….Because the Father rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son (Colossians 1:13) and we are all now sons of light and sons of day (1 Thessalonians 5:4-5).
As sons of light, we are a CHOSEN RACE OF PEOPLE, serving in His ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, as a HOLY NATION…called to proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
AMEN & AMEN!
Gene
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