I was driving down the road yesterday, and this thought came to mind, “What fellowship does light have with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14).  It is common sense that the light always overpowers darkness, but I thought, “If this is true, and we have Jesus in our life, then why do we have darkness at all?”  I began to picture a room in complete darkness until someone cracks open the door and a little light slips in.  A little outside light will overtake the darkness in a little area, but it will not fill the room with light.

I began to realize that the amount of darkness is a reaction to a problem.  The only thing that causes darkness is the absence of light.  The cause of a room with darkness is where the light is placed.  If the light is placed on the outside of a room with walls, then only a little light can shine in.  What would happen if you moved the light into the center of the room?  It would flood the whole room with light. Darkness would be expelled!

The problem with most of our lives is that Jesus is not in the center of them.  We are the center, and He is just an outside light trying to shine through the walls we put up with everything else we want to do, watch, and listen to. We never feed and live off Him.  We just let His light come shine into our room at church, once or twice a week, which makes us exactly that— WEAK.  What would happen if we put Him in the middle of our lives?  What if He was the supreme interest, and everything else fell in line and was an overflow of our passionate, whole-hearted relationship with Him?

Let me give you another illustration of darkness.  Look at this picture.  Now use your imagination to picture this room as your life and soul.  Light is trying to get in.  It wants to come in through the window.  Jesus said “the eye is the gateway or window to the soul”.  If the eye is good, then the whole body is good.  What goes in through your eyes will be what goes on in your soul.  That’s why you have scriptures like Psalm 101, where David says “that he wants to walk blameless, keeping his house clean, and will set no sinful thing before his eyes”.  If your eyes are set upon God and His Word, then your whole house (heart, soul, and body) will be good and filled with light. Where your eyes go, the heart will follow. Where the heart goes, your actions will follow.  Let no darkness come into your eyes and ears.  Put Jesus at the center of your thought life, and your house will be so flowing with light that it may just flow over into the darkness of others, causing them to want the light source that fills your house.

Psalm 27: 1 “The LORD is my light and my salvation– whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid?”

Psalm 119: 105  “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.”

Luke 11: 34  “Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.”

 John 1: 4, 5, 7   “In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.  He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through Him all men might believe.”

 John 8: 12  “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

Ephesian 5: 8  “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.”

1 John 1: 5  “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”

1 John 1: 7  “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”