Good Morning
All,
John 8:12; “Again Jesus spoke to them,
saying, “I am the
light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have
the light of life.”
For
a short time in my life I thought everything was perfect; you see I owned a
bus. We painted it green, took out half
of the seats and my youngest son and two of his friends put a couch in the
back. They needed a couple of hammers
and a saw but they got it in. There
wasn’t much in life better than driving that bus. I would take the baseball team on the
bus. One night we had to turn around in
someone’s soybean field because of a shortcut that didn’t pan out but we had
fun. In the fall of the year, I would
haul some of the parents to the football games.
It was on one of those trips that life got interesting.
Hardly anybody believed in my bus. It was old but it was reliable, mostly. We went to the most far away game and we were
returning home. As we were about thirty
miles from home, the exhaust cracked and it made a loud noise at midnight. Then as we were about twenty miles from home,
the headlights stopped working. It was
really dark. For a little while, I kept
up with a pickup that was driving ahead and “sharing” his headlights but he
drove faster than I did and soon we were trying to drive in the dark. We made it to one of our destinations, tried
a quick fix (didn’t work) and then pondered life. It was finally agreed that the person who we
let off would drive to the next stop and be our lights. Then at the next stop we would trade
again. We made it home, safely, and we
all have a story to tell.
Attempting to do things in the dark rarely
work. There are probably very few
parents alive who have not stepped on at least one Lego block in the middle of
the night. You just can’t see. Even if you “know” where everything is
supposed to be, it rarely is. That
doesn’t even factor in the left out toys or the shoes or boots that are left
out. The door that is supposed to be
open is closed, someone moved a chair; it doesn’t matter if you try to walk in
the dark; you will get hurt.
This is why Scriptures uses the metaphor
about Jesus being the light. He is the
light of the world. He shows us the way
and, just as important, he gives light to the dangers and pitfalls of the
world. We know this because God has
shown us that in order to live in complete contentment we must live according
to his will. When we don’t, we are
walking in the dark and we will get hurt.
In our life what gets hurt is our relationship with God. When we walk in the dark, we do not see so we
are easily misled and misguided. We can
end up where we don’t want to be.
Jesus is the light. Life comes from him and through him. This life gives us the light to see him clearly
as our Lord and Savior. His light shows
us what true peace is. His light shows
us how a true relationship works. His
light guides us down our path of life into his marvelous eternity of joy. Follow the light.
Father
of light, you sent Jesus to be the light of the world. Protect us from the dark and give to us the
knowledge of our salvation. Be with
those who are struggling in the dark and bring them into your light. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace
Pastor Bret
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