Living Free from the Darkness

John 12:35

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.

In the darkness, no work can be done and unseen pitfalls are perilously close by.  Left in the darkness, we will find ourselves wandering aimlessly on with no measure of progress.  Jesus warned that such a place was eminent for those who did not take advantage of the light that He provided.

Jesus is the light, the truth and the way.  When we let Him into our lives, His light reveals all the darkness in our flesh that stands ready to trap us.  His light illumines our way so that we can turn from the things in our lives that displease Our Heavenly Father.  His light frees us from the darkness where we are sure to find affliction, calamity and distress.  His light allows us to act as wise men and not as fools.

Jesus came and died on the Cross so that many may live in His light.  Those that choose to live in His light, He allows to be beacons to call others to His light and to be vessels for sharing the peace and protection that His light provides.  

Let us choose the paths for our lives that are illuminated by the presence of Our Savior.  Let us all be lamps that carry His glory.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for the Light of the World, Jesus Christ.  We bless the name of Jesus who frees us from living in the blindness and darkness created and cultivated by our sin natures.  We thank You, Lord, that Your Holy Spirit illumines our paths each day.  We pray that the Holy Spirit will guide and strengthen us as we choose to live in the Light.  We ask all these things in the name of the way, the truth and the life, Jesus Christ.