"I am the Light" by Yongsung Kim

Like an ever circling, undulating three stranded cord, the Triune beauty of God moves through history, untethered and free, from outside of time and space. Yet Father Yahweh, the Word and the Spirit would find themselves in a moment of unified and visionary genius in which they stepped out from their eternal abiding and Creation was born.

The Three in One, "the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see," (1 Timothy 6:15-16) accomplishes the unthinkable, the unknowable - Mystery made visible and tangible. "Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made." (Romans 1:20)

And it all began with light.

"Let there be light."

And it was good.

Yet there was a lingering brooding in the darkness that was given quarter through humanity's distracted reach for false light. The gleam of a knowledge and power that was not sustained and sourced through trust and love of the Triune, but rather nurtured and spawned through a pursuit of self at the expense of the other. Feeding on half-truths, deceit and manipulation. Living in the shadows. Another father. The father of lies.

And the light seemed to ever grow dim. Eons would pass.

In another radical movement of the eternal breaking into the terrestrial and temporal world, the creative, miraculous work of the Trinity is seen again. Father Yahweh and the Spirit make way for the Word - the Son of God - to become visible and tangible. To once and for all break the shackles of darkness and bring lasting release from the shroud of lies in which the kingdom of darkness operates. This Son, the first born of creation and the very image of God (Colossians 1:15), is born. Yes, born. Of a virgin. Messiah. Redeemer. Saviour. Unthinkable. Unknowable. Mystery made flesh. Son of God. Son of (Hu)man (Hebrews 1:3)

And this all began with light.

The radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being piercing the darkness.

"The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned.

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:2,6)

And now, even as we see the light increasing - as some have observed, the darker it gets the brighter the light shines - we still wait for it to come in its full radiant, blazing fullness.

For, it will all culminate in light.

"The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there." (Revelation 21:23-25)

Advent is the season of light.

We celebrate the Light of the World, Jesus who burns bright from eternity past into all eternity to come. The Light coexistent outside of time and space, come to this world, incarnated as the babe in Bethlehem, and coming again in all the radiant splendour as the King of kings and Lord of lords.

And may we shine with His light now, even as we wait.

"Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.

Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn." (Isaiah 60:1-3)