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====== Opwekking 678 - God van het licht ======
===== Introduction =====
This song always gives me a unsettled feelings, because I am not sertain of the context of the words used. 
This is why during this Shabbat I didn't sing it with the rest of the congregation, 
high time to study this out and come to a scripture based conclusion.
===== General information =====
It's a Opwekking original based on Psalm 104: 1-2 and 2 Corinthians 4:6
++++ Psalm 104: 1-2 (NASB 1995) |
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, 
2 Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. 
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++++ 2 Corinthians 4:6 (NASB 1995)| 
6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
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[[https://biblehub.com/nasb/psalms/104.htm | Biblehub - NASB 1995 - Psalm 104]]
[[https://biblehub.com/nasb/2_corinthians/4.htm | Biblehub - NASB 1995 - 2 Corinthians 4]]

===== Lyrics =====
++++ Opwekking 678 - God van het licht |
God van het licht,\\ 
U schittert in uw heerlijkheid.\\ 
Eeuwige God,\\ 
U fonkelt in uw pracht.\\ 
\\ 
God van het licht,\\ 
uw stralende aanwezigheid\\ 
verlicht mijn hart,\\ 
U bent de Morgenster.
\\ 
Sterk als de zon is uw licht,\\ 
is uw pracht, is uw heerlijkheid\\ 
verlicht mijn hart\\ 
met de gloed van uw majesteit.
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===== Analysis =====
'God van het licht', translated literaly 'God of the light' sounds like correct theology, but is it? and what do they mean? 



Do they mean that God is the God over the light, like if light would choose whom to serve it would choose God. 
Or does it mean that he is the God of good



Does this mean that He is the God of the light, if light would be a person, God would be his God.
To make it more simple, with in my opinion more meaninful terms, 
and with the context I gather from the bible verses, the writer(s) of the song mean it to say. Yahweh is Elohim of the light.
I don't know if this is taking things to literal, but in my opinion is Yahweh, El Elyon, there is no one higher. 
He is the God of everything, doesn't matter if you choose to worship him or not, that doesn't change his title.



The dichotomy((https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dichotomy)) of light and darkness, good and evil. 


The first thing that I immediatly notice is that they mixed together bible pa