“LIGHT OF THE WORLD”

AUGUST 21, 2025

By Dee Belt

AS I PRAYED, AND CONTEMPLATED ABOUT THE DIRECTION, THE LORD WANTED ME TO TAKE THIS ARTICLE,  I FOUND MYSELF AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF GOD’S WORD:

(GENESIS 1:1-4)

“IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT, AND THERE WAS LIGHT, AND GOD SAW THE LIGHT, THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS”.

MY SPIRIT STOPPED ME RIGHT THERE ON THAT VERY LAST SENTENCE:

“AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS”.  I LINGERED THERE FOR A BIT, AS A QUESTION BEGAN TO FORM IN MY MIND. I NOTICED GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS.  MY QUESTION WAS, WHY DID IT NOT READ, THAT GOD DIVIDED THE DARKNESS FROM THE LIGHT?  ONE MIGHT SURMISE THAT EITHER WAY, THE OUTCOME WOULD BE THE EXACT SAME; A SEPARATION BETWEEN THE TWO.  

ANYONE, WHO HAS ESTABLISHED A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, ALREADY KNOWS HE HAS A SPECIFIC REASON FOR THE ORDER OF THINGS.

I CONTINUED READING FURTHER INTO GOD’S CREATION PROCESS, AND IN MOST CASES, AFTER HE SPOKE IT INTO BEING, HE SAW THAT “IT WAS GOOD”.  THEREIN, WAS THE ANSWER AS TO WHY GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS, INSTEAD OF THE DARKNESS FROM THE LIGHT.  HE SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS “GOOD”.  HE NEVER REFERRED TO THE DARKNESS AS “GOOD”, EVEN THOUGH THE DARKNESS WAS PART OF THE VERY EARTH HE CREATED; YET HE REFERRED TO THE LIGHT AS GOOD, AND HE DIVIDED THE GOOD FROM THE DARKNESS.

UPON FURTHER STUDY, I REALIZED THAT THE VERY THING, GOD DID IN THE BEGINNING (DIVIDING THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS), IS THE SAME THING HE WILL DO IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT.  HE WILL AGAIN DIVIDE THE “LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS”, BY CREATING THE IMPASSABLE BARRIER BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS IN ETERNITY.  THE SOULS IN GLORY CANNOT REACH LOVED ONES WHOSE SOUL IS IN ETERNAL TORMENT.  NOR CAN THE SOULS IN TORMENT, REACH THE SOULS THAT MADE IT TO THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM.

IN THESE CONTEMPORARY YEARS, AS WE FIND OURSELVES SITTING AT THE OPEN DOOR OF THE “END-TIMES”, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND LIVING IN A WORLD THAT SEEMS UPSIDE DOWN, WHERE WRONG IS EMBRACED ABOVE RIGHT, AND RIGHT IS CONDEMNED  AS WRONG.  MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO ACCEPT THIS AS JUST A POLITICAL BATTLE BETWEEN OPPOSING PARTIES, OR SIMPLY JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE, WHEREAS PEOPLE IN GENERAL, DON’T ALWAYS SEE THINGS FROM THE SAME POINT OF VIEW.   IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, THEN I MUST INFORM YOU, QUITE EMPHATICALLY, THAT NONE OF THAT IS THAT SIMPLE.  WHAT WE ARE FACING NOW, IS A BLATANT, IN-YOUR-FACE, NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE IT, FIERCE, VICIOUS, FEROCIOUS FIGHT BETWEEN GOOD, AND EVIL, ON ALL FRONTS, ON EVERY LEVEL.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE!!!!

DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF DECEIVING YOURSELF, BELIEVING YOURSELF TO BE A NON-PARTICIPANT OF THIS WARFARE.  IF YOU ARE NOT ON ONE SIDE, THEN YOU ARE SUBJECT TO THE OTHERSIDE BY DEFAULT.  AND IF YOU FIND YOURSELF FRETTING OVER WHY SOME THINGS THAT YOU SEE AS SO OBVIOUS, YET TO OTHERS ARE COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS, REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING:

(ST. JOHN 1:5)

“AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT”.

THOUGH THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS, THE DARKNESS DOES NOT AND CANNOT COMPREHEND THE LIGHT. WHY?  ALWAYS REMEMBER 

THAT LIGHT AND DARKNESS CANNOT AND DOES NOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE, AT THE SAME TIME.

JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

(1 JOHN 1:7)

“BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN.

(PSALM 119-105)

“THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH”.

GOD’S LIGHT AND TRUTH SHINES IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS IS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND, NOR IS ABLE TO OVERCOME IT.

THE DARKNESS REPRESENTS SIN, AND SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS, WHILE THE LIGHT REPRESENTS GOD’S PRESENCE.

SO AS FRUSTRATING AS THESE “END-TIMES” ARE, REMEMBER OUR ONLY HOPE IS IN JESUS.  HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.  HE WAS HERE ON EARTH, BUT HE DEPARTED TO GO PREPARE A PLACE, FOR A PREPARED PEOPLE.  IN THE MEANTIME, HE SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ABIDE, AND DWELL WITH US, AND WITHIN US.

AND IN THIS SPIRITUAL WARFARE, WE MUST ALL REMEMBER TO PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT WE MAY WITHSTAND THE WILES OF THE  ENEMY.  

JESUS SAID, WATCH AS WELL AS PRAY.  HE ALSO CAUTIONED US TO NOT GET DISTRACTED AND CAUGHT-UP IN THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE, BUT LAY UP OUR TREASURES IN HEAVEN, BECAUSE WHERE OUR TREASURES ARE, SO WILL OUR HEARTS BE ALSO.

IN CONCLUSION:

AS THE SONG GOES:

“WALK IN THE LIGHT,

BEAUTIFUL LIGHT.

COME WHERE THE DEWDROPS

OF MERCY SHINE BRIGHT.

SHINE ALL AROUND US

BY DAY, AND BY NIGHT.

JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD”.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!