Where is the Way...?

Job, 
    stripped of his wealth,
          and deprived of his health, 
               and reduced to his essential self, 
                    cries in the midst of his search for an answer:
"Where is the way where Light dwelleth? (Job 38.19)

Some words carry an inexplicable weight,
     an immeasurable significance,
          an import of something implied but not evident.

If we could see where Light dwells we would need nothing else for our earthly journey.
     Our path would be clear,
          our steps would not falter,
               and certainty would mark all our doings.

So, where does light dwell?

God only works through the realm of the spirit,
and every other resource is without value.

In a generation where everything is studied, quantified and assigned its place
the world of God admits no such analysis.
     God is beyond it all. 

God does not ask first for our minds but for our hearts.
     His life alone is the Light we need.

John in the introduction to his gospel account says,
"In Him was Life and the Life was the light of men." (Jn. 1.4) 
     This is the only secret,
          this is the ground of all our need -
               We need Him, or all is darkness.

How hard it is to let go of the reasoning of the mind, 
     which insists  on having control over all things,
          of being the only interpreter of the meaning of our experiences.

A line of a hymn says, "God is His own interpreter."
As we lift our eyes to Him we are free from shadows of earthly things -
              free to walk in heaven's unfaltering Light.