in the dark, we can lift a lamp to light our way. or, just flip on the lights and go about our business. either way we see the way to go. . .unless our eyes are bad, and then the light becomes less and less helpful. if our eyes are completely dark, then the light is no help at all. jesus takes this line of thought one step further and adds, “and if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.” it makes perfectly good sense to say that if one is blind, then light itself will be of no help in seeing. this simple fact 