Light from Christ – Charles Spurgeon

LIGHT! oh, how precious would it be to you, if you were immured in one of those prisons which we have seen at Venice, below the water’s level, deep down, with winding passages, where even a refracted ray of light could never reach the prisoner, where he sat alone and felt for the wall, but could see nothing. “Truly,” as Solomon says, “the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.” Now, the soul has no light, no true light, no heavenly light but what Jesus brings. When a spirit is once made to feel its guilt, it is shut up in prison until Christ brings it light in the darkness of its dismay. There is no hope to a convicted spirit until Jesus shows his atoning blood; there is no clear knowledge of the way of salvation until Christ brings the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in his own face. You who love him know what brightness he has given to you, what light has irradiated your once dark spirit since you have known him, and how your heart has laughed for very joy because he has turned again your captivity, and given you to rejoice in the light of his countenance.