What Light Won’t Do

   We all know about the transformative power of light. When you get up before sunrise and look out the window, the lawn appears dark gray and black. But as the light of the sun shines upon the yard, the black and gray changes to green grass, red and yellow flowers, and brown tree trunks. Whenever the sun shines, this metamorphosis occurs.

But all the sunshine in the world can’t make green grass look red, and all the light imaginable cannot make a yellow flower look purple. In dispelling darkness, light reveals the true color of a thing. “I am come a light into the world,” said Jesus. And in His role as light, He shows us h ow things really are. He shows, for instance, that homosexuality is a sin that merits God’s judgment (Matt. 11.23), and that marriage is between a man and woman (Matt. 19.5). Jesus upheld human dignity and the fact that man is created in the image of God. He laid down the principle that we should treat others as we wish to be treated (Matt. 7.12). No one has ever tried to make the ridiculous claim that Christ believed a fetus was nothing but a morsel of meat, a mass of cells, in the same category as a mole or wart.

Light shows the true color of things. But men can fiddle with the light. They can block certain bands of the spectrum so that green grass does look red. And men try to do this with the light of Christ; they wrest it (2 Pet. 3.16) to where they claim that the Bible endorses homosexuality, abortion, etc. White light can do many things, but it can’t make green grass look red. And it can never make sin look righteous.

Kenny Chumbley