Jesus is the Light

Jesus is the Eternal Light!

Jesus is the manifestation of the Glory of God. Let's consider the light God created on the very first day of creation. The light shone upon a newly created world but was not the sun and that's impossible to comprehend.

The almighty power and eternal, boundless nature of a triune God is beyond what we can truly understand. Once there was only God stretching beyond measure and without bounds. Then God created and time began. Man is created in God's image but in the beginning, God isn't man and that's a mystery. It's not until God becomes flesh that we finally begin to see the full awe inspiring truth of God's Almighty and Merciful nature. Jesus reveals God to us!

Jesus comes to us and we can see, hear and touch the Glory of God in the material world. What seems incomprehensible comes to life in a way we can finally experience. It fills my heart with joy as I contemplate Jesus as the light of life with no darkness in Him. Jesus is what separates you and I from the darkness of the world. I imagine the dark 'void' that was first created by God. I turn to the dark void that was my life before I knew Jesus. It was life but not life as I would recognise as such now. Most of my adult life has been blinkered, living but not knowing or understanding the meaning of life. The sun illuminated my surroundings but it didn't shine a light on the truth. I still shake my head in wonder that a wretch like me was granted the blessing of truth and light by such an Almighty and Merciful God.

I'll leave you with a few verses that teach us about the great light that shines on the earth.

1 John 1:6:7 (ESV)

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice 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 cleanses us from all sin.

John 12:35-36 (ESV)

So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.

Isaiah 601-3 (ESV)

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

1 John 1:1-10 (ESV)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ...