Following Judah's Lion

A Shaft of Light from Heaven

Jesus said, I am the Light of the world.

The metaphor can symbolize many things and many times in the life of a believer. Can you remember that something hit you and you paused for a moment in your hedonistic walk through darkness and a shaft of invisible light penetrated your consciousness and in a moment you thought, “What is this life all about?”. That was not the first time you heard about eternity, but it was the first time that divine shaft caused you to think about it in a way other than a passing thought. There is a difference in the realm of the mind that separates a general gathering of facts from being in possession of truth.

That moment began a process that the Spirit would build upon in the coming days. The residual thoughts that were with you as you continued your life would become your friends and would re-introduce themselves to your mind and heart as you went along. While driving or before you fell asleep or while listening to a song, that shaft would reappear and again you could not escape the question, “What is this life all about?”. Things along the way would invigorate that shaft of light. A cross on a church, a snippet of a preacher’s words on the radio, a bumper sticker, or even someone sharing Christ with you. The shaft of a past moment would again remind you of the possibility that it was not just an anomaly or coincidence, it just might be communication.

Then one day as that light was drawing your thoughts, another and much more powerful shaft of light singed your inner being. This time it brought with it another thought that carried with it eternal and serious implications in its very nature. This time your mind stopped and you thought, “What if Jesus is the Son of God, and what if He is Who He claimed to be?”. Alright, now this light is beginning to get scary, and as you give substantive thought to the question that now is rattling around your mind you feel a number of emotions. Fear, unsettling, excitement, wonder, doubt, and many other emotions start to gather in one spot and you go back and forth between thinking you are becoming unbalanced or knowing you are starting to come out of being unbalanced. Jesus, you have heard about Him most of your life but this is different. Could it possibly be true? Oh well, you move on but these thoughts brought by that shaft of illuminating light never leave you no matter how you try and occupy your mind.

Then came a day, a wondrous day, a life changing day about which words can never fully describe. A royal and glorious shaft of light penetrates the innermost part of your being and reveals to your spirit and mind that Jesus is the Christ, Son of the Living God, and that He is the only way to eternal life. For a moment it takes your breath away and you are immobilized. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Suddenly all the Bible verses you heard by accident throughout your life come alive, they actually mean something now. Even the name of Jesus takes on an incredibly new and sacred place in your heart, and you have just begun to know Him. You will realize in future days that this shaft of apocalyptic light was the single most important event in your life and that it not only came from God, it is Him in the Person of the Holy Spirit. You will never be the same, that shaft of light now lives in you.

Time is now passing and that same shaft of light penetrates the hearts of sinners all over the world and the events of many are personalized mirrors of each other. Different but the same. But there is coming a day about which the world is dangerously unaware. This day will see a bright and violent shaft of light break through the dense darkness of this sin cursed world. It will blind the eyes of billions and will create immeasurable fear in the hearts of all the earth dwellers. The games have come to a screeching halt and the fearful attention of all the inhabitants is summoned. In an instant, with no more warning or second chance, the brilliant shaft of glory illuminates the four corners of the earth and the darkness that men loved flees now before this beam of incandescent wrath. Millions upon millions are now burned alive and their souls are sent screaming into the judgment that has awaited them before the worlds were made. God’s justice now comes riding with the Lamb as He now makes war with all who know not God and obey not His gospel. A dreadful spectacle that wreaks of death both physical and spiritual, forever.

Do not think my words are melodramatic or exaggerated, far from it, when the Lamb’s light arrives upon mankind on that day it will be the nightmare that had hung over mankind since Adam, and a prelude to the Great White Judgment itself. Does it seem like a fairy tale? Like a science fiction picture from Hollywood? An archaic religious fable that intelligent people have long since cast off? If that is what you believe than you will not see it, you will experience all its eternal horrors. Please repent, and allow the first shaft to penetrate your heart and let your ears hear what the Spirit will speak to you, not what you speak to yourself.

But to us who have experienced the brilliant shaft of God’s light of eternal grace, we fear for those who will stand in His path. But we bow before His glory in brokenness and worship, and we say,

We await your glorious and triumphant return to take up your rightful throne, and on that day there will be no need for a temple made with hands,

“for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”

A nail pierced shaft of light.