There are two angles; good and bad in the course of life of everyone. The good angles encourage to hear the voice of inner conscious so as to get the enjoyment of heaven and heavenly things and the bad angles discourage us from listening to our inner voice so that we are dragged in the track of the evil world to fulfill our materialistic ambitions and harp for power and wealth. Light and sight fall in the category of good angles and are supplementary to each other. Light is worthless without sight and so as sight without light. Sighted benefit is nothing in absence of light, and similarly, light makes no difference to sightless. Light and darkness both are same for blind. A blind standing under the shinning sun or amidst the great darkness finds nothing changing around him. Rising or setting sun is insignificant to him.
But, the most pitiable thing seen on the face of earth is, sighted are living like blind due to lack of light. There may be many who have got beautiful eyes and enough light, but due to lack of sight in their eyes, they are unable to see anything. For them, light is there, but sight is lost. How misfortunate they are!
It is the narration about physical blindness and sightedness. But, the situation of people’s inner lives is more pathetic. Inspite of having eyes they can’t see anything because they lack sight in their eyes and light in their lives. They suffer from spiritual blindness which is kind of a state of lack of conscience. They are unable to differentiate good and bad because their senses are not effective. We can describe this, as a situation where person’s inner soul is weak and therefore fails to gather courage to fight back against the impurities arising in him; in other words he fails to fight against himself. Outer blindness, to some extent, is tolerable, but the inner blindness is truly pitiful because there prevails an abundant darkness inside. Jesus says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.” Inner blindness is dangerous because it causes inner darkness. Outer eyes see what the inner eyes direct them to see, and when there is darkness inside, what the outer eyes would see – darkness, darkness and darkness.
Amidst all these, Jesus claims in the Bible that “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” If we concurrently read Genesis 1:3 in the Bible, the first word that was uttered by the Almighty during creation of heaven and earth was “Let there be light: and there was light.” The Lord created light before creating anything else because he knew the importance of light in human life. Now, while comparing the statement of Jesus who is the light of the world with these verses, it indicates that Jesus already existed before anything else came into existence, and through the Lord’s word, He revealed himself to the world in the form of light. Going further Genesis 1:4-5 reads “God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.” It interprets that other name of Day is Jesus. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Jesus, while on the earth, healed hundreds of people from their spiritual and physical blindness and made them walk in the true light of life. Amen.
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