We can think of “light vs. dark” in two ways. We can envision light as an expulsion of the dark—all is darkness, but the light shines. Or we can think of darkness existing only where the light is absent. It’s a matter of perspective. Whichever feels more correct to you, the effect is the same. Until we step into the light, we are drowned in darkness. We should think of living in sin as existing on the dark side of the moon. It is a place shielded from the light by our fallen nature and sinful existence (as 1 John 1:5–7 explains, light and darkness do not blend). Salvation, delivered to us by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, is stepping from the dark side of the moon to the side which always faces the sun, imbued with all the brightness of open space.
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