Parable Of The Street Lighting

As I was on my way to work this morning, I noticed that the time switch for the street lighting was malfunctioning and the street lamps were not switch off., and the light of the street lamps were overshadowed by the bright morning sunlight. I took time to count the number of street lamps along the road and there are ten sets of them affected by the malfunctioning timer.

From these street lamps, a picture of a biblical scenario on the purpose of the Ten Commandments suddenly appeared in my mind…

After Adam’s sin, the whole world had fallen into sin and was in total darkness. As the purpose of the street lighting is to shine in the night to give light for clear visibility, the Ten Commandments as typified by the street lamps were given to shine on the darkness of this world to show the people of this world the holy requirement of God. The law was added so that the trespass might increase. The law is to show us our trespasses and how ugly we are. Nevertheless, the law could not help us but to point us to the end of ourselves and our needs for a Savior.

Jesus, the Author of the Ten Commandments did not do away with the law but fulfilled the law in the nature of a Man and nailed the requirement of the law to the cross. The entire sin of this world condemned by the law were imputed onto Jesus and His death on the Cross gave those who believe a new birth in the Spirit and delivered the believers from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light.

The light of the Bright and Morning Star is shining much brighter than the light of the law, just like the morning sun light is greater than the street lamps. When we are in the Kingdom of Light, the light of the Law had already done its purpose and we are no more under its scrutiny. We are now under the light of the Bright and Morning Star that gives us life, hope, freedom and continuously impute righteousness onto us… As much as the street lighting are still needed at night in the dark, so is the law. The people of this world who are still in the dark, needs the law to show them their needs for a Savior. But for those who are saved and already in the Kingdom of Light, the law has done with them and they are no longer under law; just like I was driving to work depending on the bright morning sunlight not the street lighting...

Galatians 3:23-25 ~ But before faith came; we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.