The Realm of His Glorious Light

“There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?” John 14:2(NLT)

By Alexandra Copeland

There’s a statistic out there suggesting that the popularity of the occult is on the rise. This is indeed a shame. The gifts of our Heavenly Father are so generous and awesome. I asked myself why anyone would choose the realm of darkness. It’s evil, a counterfeit, and it can’t compare to the realm of glorious light that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, has made available to us. As I thought about this more, I became embarrassed that I even asked myself the question. I’ve been on this Christian journey for many years, and wouldn’t trade it for anything. The splendor of having intimacy in our relationship with God is beyond words. I know this from personal experience, and I also know how vehemently the enemy will oppose us when we seek to deepen our relationship with God. 

 

The devil has bamboozled the minds of many people. God tells us through the Apostle Paul in 2Corinthians 4:4, “Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.” The devil, satan, is the god of this world, and his rulership is one of darkness, chaos, confusion, and death. Deception is the name of his game, and he deceives people by using tricks and manipulation to keep them from recognizing the truth. 

People today are dealing with situations that are very complex and challenging. They don’t like feeling helpless, none of us do, but they don’t know where to turn. Many of them turn to satan and become children of darkness by handing over their lives to him. They want power, and they are willing to embrace anything that looks as though it might make them more than what they think they are. This is a very dangerous game they are playing, and it is sad to say that many of God’s children have also fallen for these tricks.

2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (NLT) tells us, “19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”” As children of the light and ambassadors for Christ, we should be ushering people into the light of Christ by the droves, but we don’t see this happening nearly as much as we should.  

Others should be able to smell the sweet aroma of God’s love from those of us that have been born again. Our excitement for His Kingdom should be palpable, but our doubt and lack of zeal has all but cancelled out our spiritual scent. Many of us are not excited, and it is partly because we’ve stalled out. At one time, we were very hopeful. We thought we were going to be supernatural dynamos, but somewhere along the way we stopped believing, and forgot how to walk by faith. Some of us refused to allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to lead, guide, and direct us; and because we didn’t, we were not able to tap into his power, nor have we been able to help anyone else to walk in God’s power.

The miraculous does indeed happen. Extraordinary signs and wonders in the powerful name of Jesus Christ occur all the time, and people are being healed in phenomenal ways. But more important than these is the everlasting glory from God’s throne that falls upon believers that dare to trust they can actually bask in it. It’s a glory so permeating, thick, and filled with ooey, gooey goodness, that a person can hardly stand up in the midst of it. And the peace…truly it passes all understanding. This, and so much more, is available to us by faith, if only we would believe and trust the Lord. 

Jesus Christ told us in John 4:24 (NLT), “For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” There is more happening in the spiritual realm than there is in this earthly realm. The earth is but a tiny dot in the scope of all that God has created. We cannot see all the activity going on, but through His Word we have evidence that much is taking place. Jesus Christ gives us a sneak peak of this in John 14:2 (NLT). He said, “There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?”

It is almost impossible to imagine a home large and grand enough for the expanse of God. He is awesome beyond words, and He is everywhere present. The earth is only His footstool, so just think what His entire house must be. Jesus Christ assures us in John 14:2 that each of us has a place in God’s home. This is too magnificent to ponder.

The things that are unseen are more real than those that can be seen with physical eyesight; the invisible more real than the visible, and the spiritual is more real than the physical. As citizens of earth who have embraced the tangible wholeheartedly, we lose sight of this; but lest we forget, this earth is not our home, we’re just passing through. We can’t see heaven in the same way that we see the things in the earth, but we know that heaven is real, for we trust it by faith. In this same way, we need to begin to ignite our faith and excitement for the work of Christ, as his ambassadors. 

 

If we don’t begin to catch the fire of the Holy Spirit within us and take it by faith, we’re going to lose out on the many opportunities to bear witness of the realm of God’s glorious light. There’s something distinctly different about a person that knows who they are in Christ, and others will sniff it out because it’s an aroma of real and true power…the power that only God can give. Through Christ, we have it, and we ought not to be afraid or ashamed to use or show it! ■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.