Article: Jesus the light of the world! | JACOB VARGHESE

Are you ever been through darkness? Do you like being in the dark? Darkness represents a lack of peace and a hopelessness that seemed to never end. Darkness is the absence of light. Darkness has never represented peace. We all know that darkness represent everything that is evil. Light is opposite of darkness. Genesis 1:3 ” And God said, let there be light and there was light.” We see here God spoke light into existence. He speaks things happens. In other words, what God wills happens. Whatever happens in our life happens because God wills it to happen. There is no higher will than God’s will. Note that light was the first thing that God made. Light is a marvelous thing. While darkness represent all kinds of evil, light represents truth and wisdom. So God saw that the light was good. God is good and so every thing that He makes is good.
If you look closely and meditate on this passage, we can see the story of God’s plan for salvation. From the very begining God had a plan and I believe God allowed darkness in His creation. With out darkness we would not have understood the blessing of light. Though darkness had to be present but it did not control God’s creation. But if there was no darkness, would you need God? So when God said let there be light, it is a command to darkness to give way for light. God did not beg darkness to please go away. We all know that when God command, it must be obeyed that every darkness must go.
Darkness could be of different kind. Our eyes need light to see but if there is no light, we can not see the beauty or the dangers in front of us. That is physical darkness. Have you ever been out a night when the darkness seemed so thick you could feel it? Darkness is also a symbol of ignorance or confusion. This can happen if you just don’t know something or are mentally blind to something. It can relate to not knowing something about the world or about God in heavens. We see this statement “Let there be light” first time in the Bible in Genesis 1:3. In 2 Corinthians 4:6 when Paul wrote “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness”- it speaks about the light of the knowledge of glory of God. In all of our life there is a moment when God opens our minds with His light to have knowledge of Him.
Then there is another kind of darkness that is spiritual darkness. In the New Testament the use of “light and darkness” is almost always referring to spiritual darkness which we should acknowledge as the absence of God in our life. In Peter 2:9, we see “called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” God has sent Jesus to be the light of the world even before the world began. As long as there is sin in the world, men and women are at odds with God but Jesus came to this world to reconcile us with God. In Numbers24:17 we see Moses wrote “A star shall come out of Jacob, a scepter shall rise out of Israel.” He said a star(a light) would come out of Israel and bring God near to us. And we know that He was born unto us, to be “God with us”. Here we understand Jesus is the light and He makes us approachable and accessible to God in our life.

Christ made it possible for God’s power to be realized in our weak and sinful life bringing the beauty of God’s “light” and “glory” to our dark minds and hearts. In Isaiah 49:6 the Prophet said, Christ was going to be a light for all the world. “I will make you a light for the world, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” God has been in the business of bringing people out of spiritual darkness to His salvation. So Jesus can not be ignored. In Roman’s 3:23 we read, ” All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” But in John 8:12 Jesus himself said “I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
The light of life -Jesus has come into the world, that is why we celebrate the Christmas story. God said, “Let there be light” but let me ask you, “Are you missing that light?”. Do you allow the light of Jesus Christ to be your Joy?. Jesus is that light, so let there be light in our life.
JACOB VARGHESE

-ADVERTISEMENT-