In Scripture, light is inseparable from truth. It reveals, exposes, and distinguishes without partiality. For this reason, light is not always comfortable.
I once heard an excellent illustration of our lives under pressure. There are moments in life when a person feels as if he is lying on the ground with the metal track of a heavy tank passing over him. Each link in the track presses him further and further into the earth.
In our time, the patterns of Noah’s days have returned: violence, moral decline, self-centeredness, irreverence, and spiritual indifference. Yet just as Noah entered the ark and was saved, we also have been given an ark.
In the Scriptures there appears a unique figure called the man of the wall, the one who stands in the gap (watchmen on the wall). This is a person willing to take his place in the breach.
