The sunrise seeps through the trees oozing into the darkness of the pre-dawn sky. I sit and watch this almost every morning as the light invades the night. It is always amazing. There is something so divine about the sunrise, about light, about how it illuminates the darkness impartially. It can’t not shine it’s light into every corner or crevice. It overcomes darkness.
And so it is with Jesus who is the Light of the world. He has come to overcome all darkness. John 8:12 says, “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” He is the Light! When we know Him as the Life and therefore the Light, we will never walk in darkness. We walk in abundant life and never ending light. Light that illuminates all sin, all darkness and evil. We see clearly! We have no fear in the Light. We can walk in the world because we are in the Light. Friends, we need to make sure we are in the Light as 1 John 1:6 states, “If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son purifies us from all sin.”
What a glorious truth that Jesus would come to be the Light of the World and allow us to enter into this light and life through His blood that He freely gave! He came from heaven to be born of a woman and walked this earth, died and was resurrected! Knowing Him, we are therefore also lights unto this world, a “city on a hill” that we might “shine our light before men (Matt. 5:14-16).
My prayer is that I can be that light, that beacon of hope to those around me. And that THE LIGHT will overflow from me as I walk in the path God puts before me everyday as the dawn overtakes the dark and the day begins. As I walk here in Wisconsin or in Zambia or anywhere in between, I walk into the world knowing I have the Light that overcomes. Let us boldly be that light, life and love to those around us and overtake the darkness with the Name above all Names, the Light of the World, Jesus.
May you experience the Light of the World this Christmas season! May He illuminate your need for Him and may you bend your knee to a Savior born to the world, a baby in a manger.
Many Blessings to you all! Merry Christmas!
