Christ Our Light
A. Maclaren, D. D. Isaiah 60:1-12 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen on you.… Light makes many a surface on which it falls flash, but it is the rays which are not absorbed that are reflected in the optics of earth; but in this loftier region the deviation is not superficial but inward, and it is the light which is swallowed up within us that then comes forth from us. Christ will dwell in our hearts, and we shall be like some poor little diamond-shaped bit of glass in a cottage window which, when the sun smites it, is visible over miles of the plain. And if that sun falls upon us, its image will be mirrored in our hearts, and flashing in our lives. The clouds that lie over the sunset, though in themselves they be but poor, grey and moist vapour, when smitten by its beneficent radiance become not unworthy ministers and attendants upon its glory. So it may be with us, for Christ comes to be our light. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. WEB: "Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.