Wisdom's Radiance

Who is like the wise man?
Who knows the explanation of things?
Wisdom brightens a man’s face
and changes its hard appearance.
-Ecclesiastes 8:1


A white dot.

Small, seemingly insignificant.

It’s in the distance, over the horizon, quietly blinking.

You think it’s a star and settle in to watch the night sky.

But it’s moving.

Slowly, so slowly you don’t pick up on it. As it draws nearer, it grows. The dot becomes the size of a marble, then a baseball, and as it increases in size, it becomes vibrant, intense.

Suddenly, the sky is engulfed with this light. You shield your eyes, and as you do you notice it continues to move in your direction. The light is blazing, and a white hot heat runs over your skin. Your heart hammers, practically pulling out of your chest. You don’t know why, but you long for this light more than you’ve ever craved anything else. There is a rush of warmth swarming through your veins, and that light continues to crawl through the air, shifting lower, lower, until it hovers just above your head.

You raise your eyes to meet this moment. Like a July breeze, the light wraps around your face, kisses your skin and scrambles for your soul. Electricity shoots through you, yet no pain follows. The current calms you, claims you as its own. You are bolder with this branding. And as the illuminating glow reverberates inside, you know at once that your heart has been blackened with a blinded darkness until the light broke through with such force your body is helpless to do anything but surrender to its arrival.

You know, with certainty, that the aching your soul harbored is gone forever, and is now replaced with a golden light exploding around you.

The world sees this radiance upon you and yearns to ignite with the same burning promise.


Prayer:
You are holy. You are the blazing in my breast, the Light that fills my sky. Father, You are wisdom, You are understanding, You reach down for me to know You. Thank You for presenting Your light in my darkness. May I remember what You give to me and be covered in Your beautiful promise of life eternal. Amen.