October 2, 2025
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
– 1 John 1:5
For those critics who like to paint Jesus as “the white man’s god,” please pay attention: God’s word, the Holy Bible, states clearly that “God is light,” not white! The biblical description of God as “light” is a metaphor for His essential nature rather than a reference to a physical color.
God is not a color of the spectrum, like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet. He is like the crystal clear light that—when directed through a glass prism—produces the colors of rainbows, the rainbows that occasionally decorates the sky when sunlight passes through the drops of water that fall during a rainstorm.
And God created that first rainbow to certify that he would never again inundate the earth with water, a fact that should do away with the empty threats of those who promulgate the false doctrine of global warming. Apart from that, the rainbow was not meant to serve as a symbol for people who practice things that God considers abhorrent.
But God is much more than energy. He is a Person—characterized by immeasurable intellect, will, and emotion. God is love and life,
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
Concerned about global warming? If you’re not born again, don’t rush it! God will get around to it soon enough. But there won’t be any flood waters to sooth feverish brows.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:10-13
“God is light,” and that light shines on people of every color, red and yellow, black, brown and white. And that light can illuminate our hearts and minds with truth and grace. Or, in our pride, we may, like Icarus, the character in Greek mythology, fashion our own wings of tar and feathers, and try to reach the sun on our own, perishing in our own self-righteousness.
Some scientists postulate that one day the earth may draw nearer to the star that we call our Sun, and the planet will be incinerated. Others fear that a burning asteroid will smash into the earth and destroy all life, as some argue ended the age of the dinosaurs.
If these philosophers—who base their conclusions on such scanty evidence, were to ask God to open their spiritually blind eyes, and were to then read through the Bible, they might come to understand that God created it all, and God will end it all!
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1;3
The Apostle John, when writing about John the Baptist, said this:
He (John the Baptist) was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 1:8-9
The apostle knew that the man he had formerly followed, John the Baptist, was not the true light that lighteth every man, regardless of their race or color, or of their national origin or their fake and failing religion. Jesus, after all, was born the Holy Spirit and a Hebrew woman, not of a Caucasian.
So, the Book of John opens by stating that Jesus was the true light. But man has a problem, because our spiritual eyesight is cloudy, even blind. So John informs us:
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
We can be adopted into the family of God, with all the privileges that implies. But we will be
… born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14-15
In a letter that we call The 1st Epistle of John, he declared,
… that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
I John 1:5
If you walk into a strange room at night, when the lights are off, you can’t tell what colors the walls, the carpet, and the furniture are. You can’t tell because every thing is in darkness, and darkness is the absence of light. The light of Christ will bring true color to your life, regardless of whether you are red, yellow, black, brown, or white.
And when you finally step into the presence of God, after exercising even the least amount of faith, in Jesus Christ, it will be like watching the sun rise in the morning, and you’ll experience that first glorious glimpse of something you’ve never imagined. It will stagger you with its magnificence and make you hunger for more.
We are told,
…if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.
I John 1:7
Jesus is waiting for you with outspread arms and a voice of love. Why wait and longer? Tell him you are sorry for your sins, that you want him to be your Savior and Lord, and find new life today.