The Kingdom of Light

It's been awhile since I last blogged. I've got a bad habit of getting overcrowded with stuff in life, that keeps me from goals and priorities. I will do better. My goal is to share a new blog each week and tell about what God is taliking to me about! Hope you enjoy and ponder this one and let me know what YOU think about it!

Eph. 5:8 You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,
Eph. 5:9 for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
Eph. 5:10 Try to learn what pleases the Lord.
Eph. 5:11 Have nothing to do with the worthless things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:10 At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.

I have tried to write this article for a couple of weeks now, but either I have an interruption, sudden hospital visit, approaching holiday, or else there is a late-breaking news flash that necessitates a response to the world around us.
Such is the case this time, as all of the above circumstances have been colliding in my spirit and soul, making it difficult to know where to begin. As I thought and meditated on these things, I decided to start by focusing on Jesus (it always comes back to that truth!).
As we celebrate Jesus, I am reminded that He is the Light of the world. This “Light” was a theme at His conception and birth. It was a key principle of His ministry teaching about Himself. It also was contrasted with the darkness at His crucifixion and burial. But "Light" was evident at His resurrection!
As Peter points out, Jesus’ great work involved bringing us out of the darkness of sin with its penalty of eternal death and into His marvelous light, by the mercy of His death on the cross and glorious resurrection. But Jesus did not merely die to redeem our souls for eternal life, but also our daily living. This is the essence of Paul’s instruction in Ephesians 5. So the Easter story is more than the empty tomb; it really is about the resurrected Jesus living daily through our actions, words, and lifestyles.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were talking about Einstein’s theory of light. Now, I certainly don’t put his ideas on equal par with the Bible, but I thought that his observations shed some “light” on the subject of light. He speculated that at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), “time” would become like a standstill so as to become non-relevant. As I pondered that idea, I applied it to my understanding of eternity, heaven, and hell. It was quite eye-opening!
In Heaven’s Light, we will be like Jesus in a glorified body that can move at the speed of light, visiting with Him and all the saints and loved ones with never a fear of “good-bye”, as time will have neither meaning nor shackles on us. Only joy, laughter, eternal delights, pleasures, adventures, exciting surprises, learning, and the satisfaction of knowing all this wonder and fellowship will go on forever without a single clock in sight!
Conversely, in hell, there will be no light whatsoever. There will be intense flame and endless burning, but no light – only darkness that can be felt forever. Utter isolation without any companions, only your own thoughts and memories of sin to torment you. Without light, time will be crawling like a snail for eternity with clocks ticking around you to remind you of your foolish and stupid choice to reject Jesus and His Word. Your torment and loss will create a thirst that will never be quenched and a madness of soul that will rage in your consciousness without any hope of relief by either annihilation or escape by some drug or medication.
What an awesome contrast that puts into clear perspective why Christ died and rose FOR YOU!! And why He implores us to repent of our sin and come to Him today and STAY with Him every day. It also clarifies why we emphasize personal evangelism and world missions so much. God is not willing that anyone should perish but that everyone should come to repentance and have eternal life. Jesus came that we may have abundant life both on earth and forever in Heaven. Come to His Light today and keep walking in it with Him daily!
Blessings!