Blinded By The Light

(Originally posted 12/29/2008)

This is a great song with a great solo in the middle. Bruce Springsteen did it, but I prefer the Manfred Mann version: Blinded By The Light on You Tube. (If on Facebook, click "View Original Post" for video and You Tube links.)



This song came to mind this morning as I went out to start the car. It is not sunny, but what light there is reflects brightly off of the snow. So I put on my sunglasses. Then, as I began to scrape and push the ice and snow off of the windows of my car, I began to think about the True Light..."The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world." (John 1:9). That Light, of course, is Jesus Christ.

One of my favorite verses in the Bible is in Revelation: "...and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength." (Revelation 1: 16b). Imagine that for a moment. John is seeing Jesus Christ, and He is so bright that He is like the sun in its full strength and glory, but that Light is God Himself.

I do not want to put on glasses or try to hide in the shade, but I want to run out completely into the warmth and glory and beauty of Him, enveloped in the rays of His love. I want to be blinded by His Light, completely immersed in His radiance.

So as I sit here listening to Manfred Mann and jamming out, I hear two songs...the one that was written about 40 years ago, and the One written by God Himself.