Light is something that usually...
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Light is something that usually cheers us. We welcome the first stirrings of dawn. We are comforted to see a lamp burning in the living room window when we arrive home on a cold winter night. Most of us love to sit around the light of a fireplace. We thrill to the spectacular light of a Fourth of July display.
And surely God's Word is a kind of cheering light for our pathway through life. But the presence of God's light is also a kind of mystery, and, as for Moses here, it can be an awesome brilliance. For God's light always reveals our own smallness, our dwelling in darkness without him, and his serious call that we begin walking in the brilliance and purity of his light. As we experience God's light, we are gradually drawn from the fear of Moses here to the encouraging stance of the disciples in today's Gospel, when Peter finally said, "Master, how good it is that we are here."
And surely God's Word is a kind of cheering light for our pathway through life. But the presence of God's light is also a kind of mystery, and, as for Moses here, it can be an awesome brilliance. For God's light always reveals our own smallness, our dwelling in darkness without him, and his serious call that we begin walking in the brilliance and purity of his light. As we experience God's light, we are gradually drawn from the fear of Moses here to the encouraging stance of the disciples in today's Gospel, when Peter finally said, "Master, how good it is that we are here."
