~ Light in the Shadows

I’m guessing that right about now you are thinking contradiction at best or that he has finally hit that wall; and lost it. In fact the opposite is true. I think that I know exactly what I am proposing.
If you will imagine a bright hot sunny day, you take relief from the sunshine under a big leafy tree that casts a shadow for twenty feet. You rest up for a while right in the middle of this twenty foot shadow but before long you realize the sunshine is still reaching you. How? You ask yourself and then notice that the spot where you chose to sit is bathed in sunshine. You hadn’t noticed that there was a part of the tree that was not as thick as the rest, and that the earth’s rotation had meant that the spot you are sitting is exactly where the sun is getting through that thin spot now.
Another instance, you are taking a photo of your favourite model but because of the position of the sun in relation to your model, and the more important background, means that your model’s face is in bright light on one side and in almost total shadow on the other. What to do? This is what the professionals do, they grab a reflective surface and someone to hold it up to illuminate your model’s darkened side, of course we never see the reflective person unless it is in some how-to story.
So what has all this to do with “Making A Difference”? Only everything, Jesus does not call us to do that which He has already called “finished”. Even if we could go to the cross there is, and always will be, one impediment to that idea. He alone is the Sinless Son of God.
At the simplest we can be reflectors for our Master, let His love and life shine from our surface. There is a higher discipline though which is to let others see Him through the life we live and the way we relate to them.
The problem for God, who for this exercise is light is that He cannot deal with the sin that so easily ensnares us, and others. The solution was for Jesus to become the God-Man and by His death to become the filter for a righteous God to be able to deal with sin-filled mankind. So God’s light is shed abroad but sin establishes bunkers which create shadow that sinners can shelter in. Enter the God Followers who can invade the shadow of sin and shine His light where He, because of His holiness cannot.
The Bible talks about these concepts of Jesus being the light of the world, and also, of Jesus calling us light of the world.
I am the light that has come into the world. No one who has faith in me will stay in the dark. - John 12:46
While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." - John 9:5
The true light that shines on everyone was coming into the world. - John 1:9
The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light. - John 3:19
You are like light for the whole world. A city built on top of a hill cannot be hidden, - Matthew 5:14
Just as Lighthouses are built on cliffs near danger spots for shipping might I suggest that Jesus calls us to be light to our world to show those around us of the danger of the paths that they are choosing to lead, and to point the way to a new way of life.