When this happened my son, Ethan was eleven. With all seriousness, while we were in the car talking, he told me the most extraordinary thing. He said that God revealed some insight about Himself to Ethan. Ethan said to me, “You know how God is everywhere all of the time?” I agreed and he said that God had revealed how He is everywhere all the time to him…and he proceeded to ask me, “You know how God is light?” I agreed with this statement. “Well everywhere light is—God is,” he continued. I then asked him, “Well, what about where the darkness is?” He answered immediately with automatic precision, “Well God makes light we can’t see.” I thought about this and I wondered how would a child have such profound insight about God in which he was given zero time to prepare such an answer? I came upon these Bible verses, which I am quite sure Ethan did not have foreknowledge, which only confirms what was revealed to him about God. I do believe that God revealed this information to him:
Psalms 139:7-12: Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
2 Corinthians 4:5-6: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1 John 1:5: This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Jeremiah 23:24: Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Here Ethan tells what happened in his own words:
I was riding in the car coming on the way home from going out to eat at night and that reminded me to pray and I did and immediately after my prayer. I always say my prayers before dark because bad things happen in the dark and back then, I was always afraid of the dark. And immediately after I had finished my prayer God had put a thought into my head that He is light and light can go anywhere. Immediately I told my mom. I was never afraid of the dark ever again because I just picture God being there and He lights my way.
