The term “darkness” has many contexts. We can use it literally to mean the absence of light. We can figuratively employ it to mean confusion or lack of knowledge and insight. Darkness can suggest a depression or emotional low. At its symbolic extreme it is a metaphor for evil.
In contrast Samuel 22: 29 uses the image of a lamp. A simple tool, but a mighty one. Even a small flame can dispel darkness. But here, David sings of the greatest light of the universe: “You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light.”
Our Lamp – God, drives away darkness, ignorance, depression and anxiety, and evil. The flame of God gives us literal and intellectual enlightenment, builds up our self-worth, and washes over us – even in the presence of the evil one.
God is our lamp. The lamp of His word makes plain our path (Psalm 119:105). His Spirit fills us as a flame (Acts 2). With the lamp that is our God, we can face any form of darkness.
Padre
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