Whether shining through a prism revealing rainbow hues, dancing off blue waters, glistening through leaves, or streaming through a window, light blesses! It hints at that infinite individualized illumination of goodness always shining as the brightness of God’s own glory. Christ Jesus manifested this holy light and identified all his followers as “the light of the world” (see Matthew 5:14).
With the appearing of Christ Jesus, a new way of looking at everything was shining on the horizon, a view with boundless possibilities. Jesus made plain the reality of being; he was at one with his Father and taught all the facts as God, Truth, knows them to be. The Christ he represented, or the “divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332), illuminates our unity with God, revealing our true spiritual nature as reflecting God’s light.
Wherever Jesus was sharing the Christ message, whether at the seashore, the hillside, the marketplace, the synagogue, there was the warm glow of healing. Right in the presence of often-skeptical scholars and Pharisees, Jesus was willing to let his light shine to be a public witness to God’s impartial and powerful love for all.
