Psalm 18:28
28 For thou wilt light ['owr] my candle: [niyr] the LORD [Yahovah] my God ['elohiym] will
enlighten [nagahh] my darkness. [choshek] KJV-Interlinear
28 For
Thou dost light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness. NASB
Light in the scriptures
is used to illustrate a clear view of ones surroundings, making it easy to
understand and discern who you are, what you are, where you are going. It illustrates your current position and your
path of life with purpose and meaning. It
illustrates prosperity, success, happiness, and holiness.
Darkness represents the
opposite, such as confusion, uncertainty, poverty, loss, suffering, failure to discern
or understand life around you, and so forth.
Darkness is the state of
the world. The world is the environment
you live in and Bible doctrine is the light that helps you see life clearly.
So the candle is the
source of light, or Bible doctrine, and the enlightenment of my darkness is the
function of your life in the light within the world of darkness that surrounds
you.
Without light you cannot
even see the nose on your face. With
light, you can see clearly, everything that is around you and then figure out
how to get from point to point in life.
Without light, you cannot
know where you are going let alone know where you are. You are totally lost, but just do not know
it.
Therefore, even though
you can easily see your surroundings, since you have eyes and the senses to get
along in this world, there is still the larger world, the spiritual world, that
you cannot see or even detect. And it is
that world that decides who you are, where you are, where you are going, and
where you will end up when this life comes to an end.
Bible doctrine, once you
learn it and keep on learning it, helps you get to a better finish, a
successful finish, a phenomenal finish for this life and thus is a very good
preparation for the next life.
Lack of doctrine, is what
you have when you decide that you do not need doctrine, that you know enough
already, and will be surprised even embarrassed, when your life comes to an
end, and then you discover too late, that you were the fool.
A typical child is born,
grows up and attends school until the age of perhaps twenty-two. Even after college, the learning does not
stop, it is only a beginning. You need
several more years to apply your knowledge and then learn better ways of using
your training. That could easily put you
to age twenty-five or thirty.
If you have not dedicated
about twenty years, or more, of your life to a daily Bible study, then you are
not prepared. Your daily study is your
academic study in the spiritual realm.
Without a consistent and long term study program under your belt, you
are neither prepared, nor can you be prepared to go it alone in this world,
because your spiritual foundation is lacking.
Your path in life lasts your
entire life. Stop your studies and you
turn off the lights in your travels through life and you are left with
traveling in the dark. You can easily
get lost, have a wreck, or worse.
Don’t refuse to light
your lamp (your daily study) and certainly don’t turn your lights off (your application
of that doctrine) by presuming that you know enough or know it all.
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