The idea of "the light of Christ" is a cool one to me. I imagine a pitch black area with one source of bright light. It seems incomprehensible that anyone would consciously choose to not follow the light. That gets me thinking, I really think that people that have experienced will always have some sort of belief. For example, those figures involved in the restoration that had seen visions and then later fell away from the church. There is no way they can fully dismiss the light even when they turn and go to head towards pitch black spiritual darkness. For some reason it was super easy for me to visualize "The light of Christ enables mankind to clearly choose between the kingdom of God or spiritual darkness.
In John, Chapter 8, it talks about "the truth shall make you free." When I think about this pretty well known phrase, I think it means that when you have the gospel, which is the truth, in your life, you are free from uncertainty. You have confidence. You are free of doubt. This totally makes sense in other forms of truth too. Through studying the gospel, and concentrating on daily gospel habits, we can know more of the truth and feel more and more confident in what we know. I know from personal experience, when I make time to have meaningful prayers and study the scriptures daily, I felt much more confident in the gospel and my beliefs. I don't think it was that I knew more information, but I had a peaceful feeling of confidence about what I knew.
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