Between light and dark light is the most powerful. One small glare of light supersedes a lump sum of darkness where as a small portion of darkness has no effect on a lump sum of light. Have you ever been as the metaphor says in the dark and all of the sudden your were enlightened without you expecting it? It is light shining out of darkness spontaneously that surprises us and you do not even know where it comes from. When we were living in darkness; in the pleasures of life, at a given moment we were enlightened and made of aware that we needed God and so we began to seek him.
John 1:4-5
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
As we go through life pacing towards death indulging in sin at varying degrees God’s goodness takes its turn towards us. Light shines in darkness and nothing can stop it. The life that Jesus lived; the gospel, on earth was and is the light of man and at varying times it shines on us (Jh. 1:8-11). The problem is that when God’s light shines on us it displays the darkness in us and so many of us are too a shame of the things we have done or are doing, so we reject the light. There are many factors that blocks the light of God in us and one of them is the god of this world (2Cor.4:3-6). Now, the god of this world could be seen as Satan, but it can be seen as those things we treasure the most. Besides the gospel of Jesus Christ rooting out the dirty laundry we all tend to have, it enlightens the knowledge of the glory of Jesus Christ. We no longer see Christ at the cross but seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. We carry the light that Jesus had (Jh. 8:12); his life style, we seek those things that he was passionate about. We become the light; there is a transformation in our way of living and we display life (Mt. 5:14).
As lights in this world of darkness at any given moment God will direct us towards someone in need; Jesus said that those who are born of the Spirit are like the wind, that at any given moment we will shine (Ph. 2:15). Darkness; or those who are in the dark are around us for us to shine to, but the question is are we shining life unto them. Those around us do not have to live in darkness when we with just a small amount of effort we can shine to them (Ecc.11:7-8). A tiny glare of light that we shine can make the difference on someone else.