Friday 6 Dec 2013

Friday Reading: John 1:1-5

Key Verse: John 1:5
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it

Devotion:
What an awesome thing to think about – that Christ created everything in the beginning and that He started with light! I seem to have heard many sermons about the light and how it shines through the darkness or how it reveals all the things in the darkness or how we hide in the darkness instead of in the light… But not too many of the simplicity of the light!

In the beginning was Christ. Christ was in the beginning because He was there to create everything. In Him is the life of the universe, of everything, of us. He breathed life into us so that we may live. He loved us from the beginning and gave us everything so that we could know Him, love Him and worship Him. He did not do this in darkness in fear of allowing others or in fear of others finding out what He was doing. He did this in the light because what He did is perfect and perfectly acceptable to all!

And yet we look at everything that He has done and we still get confused by the simplicity of the Gospel. We get confused because we see something that is perfect and cannot understand how anything can be so good when we are not. The life that Christ created was our life, giving it to us as a free gift to be treasured and to be placed on full display for all to see, accept and show to others. This special gift He has given us is to be shown to others so that they can begin to understand it too.

We could not understand it in the beginning because we did not understand it. But through His life and through His love, we begin to live in it and learn about this awesome love He alone has for us. The love He has shared with us so that He can give the glory to God; this love He has shared with us so that we can worship Him and bring that glory to God. We may take a while to understand things, but when we begin to see the light, we lift it up and glory in it and with it. Don’t hide your light under a bushel, let God’s light shine out through you!

Points to Ponder:
Do you despair at your sin?

Do you let Christ’s light shine through you?