“Let your light shine on us, O Lord” means that we want that every sphere of our being receives the light from God. More than an enlightening or awakening, it is beautiful to reflect as enlivening, that every bit of our being is filled with life.
What we are so uniquely is the signature of God in us. Our growth is not changing into something, but growing into the depth of what we really are. Our talents, skills, knowledge, views, weaknesses, hurts, sins, brokenness, anger, stubbornness and everything that makes us what we are, get refreshed and re-lives to the fullness of our being. As we receive healing, forgiveness, love, or acceptance from God we also come to know something of a new depth of ourselves. The same experience is also a revelation of something new about God more deeply. They are shaping us and create in us the special light, voice, and beauty of ours. It is, in fact, the divine touch in us, the glory of God shining in us. Our deeds and thoughts flow from it. “Let your light shine before the world.”
We might become a king, an emperor, a prophet, a sage, but if we don’t grow to the qualities of the children of God there is no light of God shining in us. It is interesting to imagine Jesus being friendly with the scribes, Pharisees, and the priests and kings. The healings and miracles would have been much more socially enjoyable and populous. But the cost of it would be to compromise to the freedom of the Son of God and the compassion of the Lamb of God. He would have to partake in the holy religious prejudices of the scribes and the holy men. Jesus clearly said, “I have not come to call the virtuous and the holy.” He was not a company for the happy meals of the righteous, but partook in the tears of the sinners and the weak. Was there light of God shining?
1 Samuel 9:1-4,17-19,10:1 Mark 2:13-17
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