Seeing by the Spirit

Our lives need light.

Our generation needs light.

Experts say, thought that the age of technology and of science would kill off any need, any sort of need for a spiritual experience.

But in the age of technology, we don't have more beauty and truth, do we? We have less.

We don't know what is real anymore and what is not, which is why new spiritual movements are right on the rise.

People are trying to fill the ache for reality, for truth and for beauty.

But we need a light that reveals beauty and truth.

We need a light that helps us see what we can't see for ourselves.

The kind of light that can flood our souls and satisfy us rather than just promising to only.

Throughout Scripture, the person of the Spirit is spoken about as being many different things.

Wind, water, fire, oil, breath, just to name a few.

But one of the most dominant ways that God's presence is spoken about in Scripture is light.

I've got to try and not do a Genesis to Jesus for you here.

But from the opening passages of Scripture, we see in creation, we see through the fire in Mount Sinai, we see the light in the tabernacle, the light that leads them through the wilderness.

We even see the prophets encountering the presence of God.

And what's spoken about is this overwhelming light.

Light accompanies God's presence everywhere.

And it also accompanies God making himself known.

1 John 1 says it super plainly, God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

Timothy says that God dwells in unapproachable light, which means that God is holy and holy light.

He is the ultimate light.

And so light gives us a way to understand something about the glory of God.

But light also gives us a way to talk about and think about the Trinity.

You see, the Father is the source of the glory, like the Son.

And the Son, Owen, is the radiance of God's glory, Hebrews says.