Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. (Psalm 43:3-4)
In the beginning, when darkness was upon the face of the deep, the first recorded utterance by the Creator was, “Let there be light.” When this light appeared (and I believe in the midst of the darkness), other events followed making life on earth possible. It is understood that this light was not the light of the sun — a heavenly body that wouldn’t appear until the fourth day — but the Light of Creation; the eternal light, always in existence and ready to dispel the darkness. This light is identified as being a prophetic manifestation of the Messiah, the Light of the World.
It is, therefore, believed by Jewish commentators that the psalmist was appealing to God that He would send forth the promised Messiah who is, as they said, “Your light and Your truth!” The plea for His light refers to the previous lament, “Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” In other words God’s people are continually subjected to the oppression and tyranny of the nations, and consequently, eager for the day when King Messiah will come and deliver us! Not only will He deliver us from the hand of the enemy but He will guide us in the truth of God’s Word; He will lead us to the mountain of the LORD that we may worship Him in the fulness of joy.
As followers of Messiah, we acknowledge that His light and His truth has already come to us in the person of Yeshua. We have been delivered from the tyranny of sin and reconciled to the Presence of the Almighty through His death, burial and resurrection. Still, we anticipate a much greater deliverance; a day when He will return and gather all of His people unto Him; a day when He will reign from Jerusalem to rule over all nations. It will be a day unlike any the world has ever seen — when all the nations are assembled before the King of Kings to worship Him in the beauty of holiness. As it is written:
It shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” (Isaiah 2:2-3)
Blessings and Shalom,
Bill
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