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.’” —JOHN 8:12, NIV
Camping up in the Sierras, I slept one night out under the stars. I knew we were high up in the mountains, but it was so dark when we settled in that I didn’t really know where we were. The sun woke us up early the next morning, and as I reached out to stretch, I discovered that one of my arms was hanging over the edge of a cliff!
Walking around in the dark is dangerous.
But all of us, before we met Jesus, were in the dark, teetering on the edge of life.
Thank the Lord that He is the Light, and that He shines His love upon us, even in our darkest, most dangerous states. Darkness is a symbol of sin, ignorance, and evil. Light is a symbol of God—His holiness and His goodness.
Sometimes I think most of humankind is walking on that hidden edge which is obscured in the shadows like a trap waiting for us to stumble and fall. But even in the most evil, black-as-night place in your life, the smallest
glimpse of truth, the tiniest flame of Light in Jesus’ name can shatter the darkness, dispel the evil, and bring hope and light back into your life.
You can reach out to your Savior with one cry for help. You can see the Light.
Isaiah, prophesying the coming of Jesus said, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” – (Isaiah 9:2, NIV)
“The light that shines from the Crucified is a light…which both illu- minates the obscurity of being and overcomes the darkness of nonbeing.” —Nicolas Berdyaev
