"Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light" (vs. 35-36). These verses from Luke are a reiteration of Jesus's well-known teaching from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:22ff. Light and darkness are metaphors for good and evil. Luke develops the metaphor with some details about the properties of light--specifically, the magnitude and direction of light. Light travels in a straight line and if it is not bright or intense enough or is deflected by a surface, then it can leave dark corners in a particular space. If Jesus is the light of your life, then make sure that there are no dark corners caused by a lack of intensity (radiance) or because something else in your life is deflecting His light. The light of Jesus should be so radiant in your life that it is like a floodlight filling you with the light of God's love and salvation.
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