In Your light we see light.

This little phrase In Your light we see light is talking about Davids relationship with the Lord Most High or the Lord of Glory. You will see any time the Psalmist appeals to the Lord Most High it is in the context of war. In other words he is going before the highest power or authority in Gods government. You will find that this Lord Most High listens to Davids proclamations. David is acting as a kind of lawyer in appealing to this Lord in using the covenants, promises, curses and decrees. These arguments are pronouncing the covenant in the context of a complaint that the people are suffering, speaking the curses of the law so that the King is confident that the Lord of Glory will be with him in war to shine His glory so that Israel would be victorious, and pleading the promises so that the king will not rule treachery. The king muses after appealing to God by these successful arguments and he begins to feel that there is honor in fighting for a much bigger purpose than the earthly conflict. The decrees are what God has promised as a result of His covenant words. So the kings pronounces Gods decrees in order to experience the power of God.
This glory is usually in the context of the Lord coming down on His chariot and shining His light to blind the enemy so that Israel could overcome them. It is always in the most critical part of the battle. So when the King says In your light we see light...it is all of the above ..using the word, experiencing the goodness of God, and seeing the victory. All of this exalts David to ruling the world. I have just described the application and purpose of salvation or deliverance.

This is why I always say that the means of grace are not works. When we talk about our actions or how much time we spend in using these means we are saying that these means are not our personal creations. Its not in our light we see His light. Its in His light we see light. So when we talk about reading scripture, confessing sin, attendance to church, taking the cup these things cannot be so personal to us that we try to control them. These are not works but gifts to us. If all of these things are a gift and they come by grace then we cannot think of them as the adding up of our performance has anything to do with their success. These means are successful in themselves. We do not give value to their success. We may really work hard to read and meditate on the word. But because the actions are not works in the biblical sense we can only see the success of reading and mediating. We cannot begin to measure it and conclude that it has value because of our time spent. The whole purpose of its success is that it is always profitable in itself. We cannot say that our brothers are to blame because they do not work as hard. Thats not grace. But we must always say that they have not discovered the benefits of is power and success. Once we begin to make it a work then we add value to it. Then it no longer is appealing or free. And we can put any these other means... confession of sin...etc.in this argument.
This grace and freedom keeps us from making the gospel a message of prejudice. When we begin to think that it adds up then we begin to practice exclusion. We begin to say that it can only be used in this context and with these particular people. But the gospel is a message in which we lay down our own fight in it and take up Gods fight. So some of the greatest successes of its power is in places we would never go to if we were taking it personal.