Job Chapter 3
Job 3 • 1 min. read • grade level: 9
The comparison of light of life in the Old Testament and the New has something remarkable in it. In the Old it is coming and being as born in the outward light of this world, as in verses 16-20 of this chapter, and more fully and to our purpose in Psa. 66:13,13I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, (Psalm 66:13) see also chapter 33: 30; but for the New, for the Lord, this is merely John 11, "the Light of this world." But "In him was life and the life was the light of men"; and then John 8, "He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life"; it is not the light of nature—life in this world. "Seeing the light" is being born in the Old, having light in this world, having life in it. Now the Light of life is having Christ, seeing by the power of that life which is in Him, He being withal the Light itself. "The life was the light of men," but a phenomenon contrary to all physical possibility, "the light shineth in darkness" (where light is, darkness is no more) but in man "the darkness comprehended it not." But He is Light—in John 8 detected the Pharisees, the light exposes all things. But following Him there is more—the Light of life—he livingly sees the light, just as the new-born babe first, and the living man sees the light, is in it because alive to Christ who is the Life—when received He is the Light of life, i.e., being alive we see the light as living men, as being such, " In his light we see light."