John 12:46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.”
We’ve been considering the powerful words that Jesus cried out in the temple to the crowd just before Passover. He has told them about true saving faith, which focuses on the truth that Jesus is sent by God so we could see and believe that Jesus is the life and glory of God dwelling among us. I believe John wrote the following because of what Jesus declared in the temple on this day. He wrote, “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (1:4). “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth (1:14). Jesus’ life is the light enabling us to see that He is life and everything else about life in this world is darkness and death. To think that your natural and physical life in this world is life is to remain in the darkness. We think that we have life if we are breathing. In truth, if we are breathing in our bodies, we are dead due to sin. Everything that is not Jesus is death and darkness. And we love it! That is, we love our lives in this world until we see the light—that Jesus is the life of God come into this world so we can see what light is—the Life of God in Jesus. Have you seen that Jesus is Life and that Life is the only light? Have you seen that the love of God revealed in Jesus is the light of Life?
Acknowledgment: Music from “Carried by the Father” by Eric Terlizzi. www.ericterlizzi.com
