"The Light Of Life"

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." Then the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid." Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards, I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf." Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

John 8:12-20

Jesus, an itinerant rabbi from the town of Nazareth, asserted that He was the light of the world. That was an incredible claim from a man in first century Galilee, an obscure region in the Roman Empire. Jesus lived before the invention of the printing press, and yet He expected that His ideas would be circulated around the globe. The words He spoke were committed to the memories of His followers.

Centuries later we still listen with amazement to the words of Jesus, which His Father has miraculously preserved. His words lead us out of darkness and into the light of God's truth.

Listen and read the words of Jesus in the Gospels. Ponder them. Let them grip your mind and change your life.

Because Jesus is the Light of the world,

we don't need to be in the dark about God.

Our Daily Bread - September 3, 2005