Revelation, Light of
Divine revelation removes spiritual uncertainty and reveals God's truth clearly.
A solitary traveller lands upon some unknown coast at morning twilight. Mists veil the landscape and obscure the sky. Adjacent things assume unreal shapes, and distant ones are still more shrouded with vagueness and uncertainty. Upwards he walks along the beach, whose paths are washed by each returning tide, obliterating every step of man. He looks around, in this uncertainty, for something to direct him. With strained eyes he sees, or thinks he sees, the adjacent town; yet all may be but fancy or illusion. That which he takes to be the neighboring spire may only be some tall and upright tree; and that which seems the body of the church may prove a mound or hillock. Yet on he goes, believing, hoping, seeking; when, lo! the sun rises, mists disperse, uncertainty rolls westward her thick clouds of obscurity, and all the landscape brightens beneath his view in the full blaze of day. Thus it is with the man who fondly seeks in Nature's twilight to find out God, or understand him to perfection; and so irradiating is the light of revelation when it dawns upon the soul. Rayg