JOH 3:19-20 tells us, "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."

To the eye, light is essential for seeing. Vision is the result of a two-fold agency, i.e., we may have twenty/twenty vision and still not be able to see anything until God gives us light. There is another aspect we must consider. The eyes are subject to disease; by nature of the fall the unregenerate eyes, our eyes, are intolerant to light.

Do you see the contrast? If our eye is evil, our body is filled with darkness, and we do not walk in the light because our eye cannot tolerate it; we walk away from the light because we do not have the Godliness Peter spoke of in 2PE 1:3-9.

JOH 3:21 continues, "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." Every one of God's people will come to a point where they want to have their deeds revealed in the light. Why? If there is a sin within them, they want to be purged from it.

Every man's conscience is the spiritual eye through which God gives light as an aide to police the man's actions. Think of how often the light or the spiritual eye of our conscience speaks to us. Do we override our conscience? If one acts in good faith before the court of conscience, it is the place of practical judgment. Our conscience is a place of judgment when it checks us; therefore, it is so important that we adhere to it.

In 2CO 1:12 we read, "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward."