Hid in the Light of Christ

I was reading and praying last night and I think I made an interesting little connection between light and being "hid with Christ in God."

I prayed that the light of God, Christ, would come upon you and asked that the darkness be driven away. Then I remembered how God shielded Moses and the Hebrews from the darkness during the 9th plague by shining the light on them. It then occurred to me that the light is God's way of hiding us.

We usually think of darkness or shadow when we think of hiding - as kids we hid in the closet or under the bed, somewhere dark where no one could see us. We hear people talk about evil hiding in the shadows and that we need to shine the light on the darkness to expose wicked deeds. But what if God hides us in the light?

I've heard darkness defined as the absence of light - darkness is nothing itself, but rather it's the absence of light. If God were to shield us - to hide us - from darkness, where would the best place be? In the shadows? Under a rock? No! It'd be in the light - in the radiance of His glorious love where "there is no darkness" and where "there is no night."

I'll pray that God hide you in His light, in His love, in His grace. I'll pray that the light of Christ be not hid from you. I'll pray that you feel that light on you - filling your thoughts and your body. I'll pray that His light pass not from you. I'll pray that His light radiate throughout your day and throughout your life. I'll pray that you see His light and that you will know no absence of light - know no darkness. I'll pray that your faith in Christ expand and grow deeper.

And I'll pray that Paul's words be fulfilled in your life - "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord." You do live as a child of the light - and "for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth."