The Light

Last week as I was driving at night in a heavy rain, suddenly my car was out of control. I felt the bump of the curb, I swerved to miss a telephone pole. There was a burst of glass looking like an ice storm, oh no!  I finally came to a stop inside an antique store. It happened so fast. I was unhurt and very sorry for the destruction that I had caused.

I was to share from the Bible the next morning in our Fellowship Breakfast at a restaurant, but was not up to it.  The topic was what does it mean for a follower of Jesus to be the light of the world. I was not feeling so much as being the light.  Sometimes we look to the past thinking how we could do things then that we no longer can do.  We look at relationships, some good, some not so good.  Leave them where they are and hold onto what is good, or kind.  This morning I awoke from a dream of hard things that I had to do and was unable  to do now in my dream. I awoke saying to myself, when I had the hard things to do, I also had what was needed to do the job. It was done and I no longer am required to do that hard thing. I am no longer in bondage to this.  A Bible verse came to me:  

John 9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 

John 9:5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 

We are alive. We can still do things. We can share the good things of God, It is still the light of day.  When the darkness comes we will not be able to have the here and now of walking in the daylight.   There is the darkness of sin, or coming persecution or even illness or death. Can we still now get up and think?  Can we share goodness and kindness?  Then we are the light of the world. Some may already be in darkness. Bring them the light as Jesus has commanded. "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. "

The Missing Truth

 Is there something missing in your life?  A person that I know who was a scholar and a seeker of truth in a  University, confided that she did not find truth in all of her studies.  Something is missing from our education, our pursuit of power, wealth and pleasure. What is missing is God.  We need God to find our way. His wisdom and his grace we need. We were created in the image of God. He was not our creation, He created all things and made us with a purpose and a plan for our life.  Our sins had separated us from God. God knowing that we were lost  and unable to connect with Him, He sent Jesus His Son to be the way of salvation and restoration. His suffering and death paid the price to free us from condemnation. By faith in Jesus we are restored into fellowship with Almighty God. Jesus lives and by faith in him we live again in our spirit, being born again.

Hebrews 11:6  Without faith no one can please God. Whoever comes to God must believe that he is real and that he rewards those who sincerely try to find him. 

John 14:6  Jesus answered, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.

Come to God, through faith in Jesus Christ.