Between my freshman and sophomore years at Clemson University, I worked the midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift for Texize (https://texize.com/), a manufacturer of cleaning products. I’ll never forget my first night. Along one wall of the large building we were working in was an open bay door, and I thought, “Wow. I can keep an eye on that door and watch the sun come up…or at least watch it get light outside.”

So I kept looking, 4am, nothing. 5am, nothing. 6am, nothing. Still pitch black. I thought, “That’s odd. Surely it’s light by now.” Finally, around 7:30am, I looked at another wall and another large open bay door, and it was broad daylight. Only then did I walk over to my first door and discover that it was open but so was the door to the boxcar that was parked right outside, waiting to be loaded!

You can’t see the light if you’re looking in the wrong place.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8.12, NKJV)