Christ’s coming into the world is synonymous with the advent of light. For Christ shines in the hearts of the children of men and delivers them from the gloom of sin, from the shadow of death and from the blinding influence of the prince of darkness - just like a lit light bulb dispels darkness in a dark room. In Adam, the sons of men fell under the grip of darkness, but Christ the Light came to deliver them. Just as He shone in the beginning at creation and dispelled the darkness that was over the face of the deep, the Lord has visited us from on high to enlighten our tenebrous hearts. He is the Light of redemption that saves us from darkness’ destructive power. He came to destroy the works of the prince of darkness. As 1 John 3:8b says, “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”

Christ frees us from the domain of darkness and death. There is no light or life apart from Jesus. “For with [Him] is the fountain of life; in [His] light do we see light” (Psalms 36:9). 

     Christ the Light came so that we might see in His light. He came to enlighten and revive all those who turn to Him. He came to remedy our spiritual deficiency, to set us free from spiritual darkness and deadness. “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life”, declares our Lord Jesus in John 8:12. We are by nature held captive by sin and “by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world” (Colossians 2:8).