For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. Psalm 18:28
A lamp is useless without light. It is made for light—that is its purpose but it cannot make its own light. It is just a carrier of light. It must be lit from outside itself. Darkness always yields to light. We never turn on the darkness. Darkness is simply the absence of light. Where light is present, darkness is absent. There is no struggle—darkness always yields to light. There is no volitional button that we can activate to produce light. We can only be lit. Therefore we are dependent creatures. But remember this, He who lights looks at what is being lit. Attentive enablement!