Section 15
we had the sense of something shining within, but perhaps, at that time, we did not have the language or the utterance to describe it. That shining was the shining of life. Because life shines, the life is the light of men. This shining is the strongest confirmation that we have been born of God.
When the Word is heard and the life is re ceived, the life becomes the light shining within to enlighten us. When God, as the divine life, shines within us as the light of life, we are under His enlightening. Being born of God by receiv ing His Word, we have God as our life, and this life becomes the light within us shining all the time. The Lord is the Word of God, the expres sion of God by which we may know God. When we receive Him as the expression of God, He be comes our life, and this life becomes the light that shines within us.
Verse 5 says, "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it." Darkness can never overcome or extinguish light, but light dispels darkness. When the light of life shines within us, darkness can never over come it. Furthermore, this light is the true light which enlightens every man. The word "enlight ens" in Greek is the same word used in the same