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Meditation on 2 Samuel 22:29 – God’s Light in Our Darkness
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Today let’s meditate on 2 Samuel chapter 22 verse 29 and let’s reflect on what it means. For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.
Now light seems to be quite important in scripture right at the beginning. It says, let there be light. But then throughout the Bible light is often referred to in different ways.
Light equates to knowledge. The more that we know, the wiser that we become, the more we are walking in the light. Those who don’t yet know God are spoken of as walking in darkness.
So what does it mean for God to be our light? It means that He is lighting our path. That means we don’t always see the full path, miles and miles ahead, but we see the next step. God shows us where to place our foot next.
God gives us knowledge. He gives us wisdom. He’s done that through the Bible, there is much wisdom to absorb all the way through from cover to cover, and also through the working of the Holy Spirit who brings direct revelation to us, words of knowledge and wisdom come from Him.
But most of all for me, it speaks of my salvation. I no longer am a slave to sin. Sometimes, my flesh wants to think otherwise, but I am not a slave to the powers of darkness. I make myself a slave to God and his ways, which are ways of light.
And then when we go and be with God in eternity, when we see His heavenly city, He is described as being the light for that city. In every way God is pushing out darkness, he is making a way for His holiness.
So in the light of God, we have guidance, we have wisdom, we have salvation, we have his glory . God is the lamp for us and he lightens our darkness.
Thank you, God, for these truths. Thank you that you do not wish to leave us ignorant or in darkness or in sin or in bondage. You are lighting our way for now and for eternity. Amen.
