“For with you is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” ~ Psalm 36:9

Today at church Chris, one of the worship leaders, said something about the sun and how we can’t look directly at it because it’s so bright and it would burn our eyes.  And I thought, “If the sun is bright enough to cause eye damage, then how much brighter is the Son’s light?  He is so holy and full of light that we would die if we tried to look directly at Him in all His glory.

Psalm 36:9 is saying that God’s light is what makes all light visible.  In other words, the sun’s light is darkness compared to the Lord, the Light.  If God didn’t exist—if Light didn’t exist—we wouldn’t be able to see the sun or anything we see by its light because God is what makes light visible.

If the sun gives light to the world, and God gives light to the sun and all the stars in the universe, how great must our God be!  The light of the sun is only a glimpse of the incredible glory that belongs to our Lord.