Recently we were considering light and darkness in Sunday school. Considering the testimonies in Heaven Is Beyond Imagination, the glory of God lights up heaven. But it is not like the light coming from the sun, the light of God is everywhere and in everything in heaven. His light comes out of animals, people, flowers, trees, walls, waters, rocks, everything. This is beyond anything we experience on Earth, so it is hard to imagine. There are no shadows in heaven because God’s light and glory are everywhere, not in some point of light. Darkness is the absence of light, the absence of Who God is: love, joy, peace, acceptance, forgiveness, wholeness. When He is absent you get the opposite: self-centeredness, self-righteousness, lust, greed, emptiness, etc. Men think they can bring utopia about on Earth by eliminating all who oppose their plan for utopia, but without God such plans achieve just the opposite: societies where the elite get all the benefits and the rest live as servants to the elite in poverty, control, and no freedoms. Just look at the difference between North and South Korea where they were originally one nation but the former has followed the Communist dream of utopia.
But I digress. The light we know on Earth is not true light, just artificial light God created for this universe. What we call light is just radiant energy, either generated by the thermonuclear reactions in the sun or by the discharge of electricity through a filament or something similar that glows when changing the electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation in the visible light spectrum. We can also get this type of radiation from chemical reactions like those involved in combustion (fire). In other words, what we know as light is God’s creation of electromagnetic radiation in order to give us a glimpse of the true light of His glory that fills His kingdom.
When we have received the transformation that God accomplishes in us through His Son Jesus when we humble ourselves to receive Him, the true Light enters our hearts to give us all the benefits of God’s Light: love, joy, peace, acceptance, forgiveness, wholeness. Our task then is to radiate that light out to an empty hurting world that desperately needs true light in order to see clearly in the dark. This dark is not the absence of radiant energy; it is the darkness Scripture talks about when Satan is in control. His lies blind those who do not have the true light in them. Though they have eyes, they cannot see, as Scripture says. Someday we will be basking in the true light of God’s glory, but for now we have the task of bringing true light into a dark world.