1. The Lord is my light andmy salvation. Here is personal interests; the soul is
assured of it, and therefore, declaring it boldly. My light. Into the
soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation;
where there is not enough light to see our own darkness and to long for the
Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. Salvation finds us in the dark,
but does not leave us there. After conversion our God is in every sense our
light. It is not said merely that the Lord gives light, but that he is light;
nor that he gives salvation, but that he is salvation. He, then, who by faith
has laid hold upon God has all covenant blessings in his possession. Every
light is not the sun, but the sun is the father of all lights. The powers of
darkness are not to be feared, for the Lord, our light, destroys them; and the
damnation of hell is not to be dreaded by us, for the Lord is our salvation.
This is a very different challenge from that of boastful Goliath, for it is
based on a very different foundation. It rests on the real power of the
omnipotent I AM. The Lord isthe strength of my life. Our life derives all its strength from him who is
the author of it; and if he deigns to make us strong we cannot be weakened by
all the machinations of the adversary. Of whom shall I be afraid? The
bold question looks into the future as well as the present. “If God be for us,” who can
be against us?
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