Meanderings on LIFE part 3 (LIGHT)

In pursuit of obtaining a biblical definition of LIFE, you inevitably run into an obvious connection with LIGHT. From the description of creation in Gen. 1 forward, LIGHT and LIFE seem to intersect regularly. In fact, LIGHT is created first and it appears to be almost a pre-requisite to LIFE...like without LIGHT there really can't be LIFE. And guess what? That is true. In the realm of physical LIFE alone, LIGHT is crucial in a myriad of ways.

So I studied LIGHT. Here's the mind-boggling conclusion I came to that was so obvious I had never seen it before: Yes--LIGHT does illuminate, reveal, manifest, make known--it does those things for sure. But is that the ultimate purpose of light? I had never forced myself to think it through further than that. This time I did. And I discovered that the main purpose of LIGHT is to MAKE PROPER INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE POSSIBLE!

LIGHT provides the possibility of proper interaction with that which is external to us...which is why it is so tightly connected with LIFE! Without LIGHT, that which is really there, outside of ourselves, although perhaps needful, is potentially dangerous to us. If there is no LIGHT, we can't see it for what it really is or where it's really at and so our interaction with it can be dangerous, (think of walking through the woods with no flashlight on a moon-less night--holes, trees branches, bushes--the external environment is dangerous in ways it isn't in daylight or if you have a light.) Proper interaction and exchange are made possible by LIGHT.

The Apostle John says of Jesus in: John 1:4 In Him was life and the life was the light of men.

To be continued....