We live out in the country - - sort of, we live in a lightless neighborhood in Damascus, MD. It took us awhile as a family to get used to the pitch black of our nightly surroundings. One thing that I had to get into the habit of doing is leaving the porch light on so that upon our return home we could find our way to the door (that’s before we installed those wonderful gadgets called motion detectors). And I guess because I’d forgotten to do this on a number of occasions, Lisa would call me on her way home to make sure I left the porch light on for her. So I became the residential Tom Bodet who in the Motel 6 advertisements says, "We’ll leave the light on for you."
I think that throughout God’s Word, if we listen real carefully, we’ll hear the Lord say, “I want you to leave your lights on.”