Live in the Light

(Note:  There should be two slices of Daily Bread...Yesterday's did not meet the deadline)

John 3:16-21

 

For God so loved the world

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

This consoling passage offers us much hope and the incentive to live clean, pure and productive lives in a world that daily seems to grow darker.  Mass shootings, headlines shocking us with revelations of heinous crimes performed in secret by respectable leaders, tales of unhappy people saturating our TV screens. and reports of the never-ending Pandemic. Not very encouraging on a  Monday morning. But the reminder that God gave us his only Son to keep us from perishing under the weight of all of this and urges us to remain faithful in small as well as big things. to trust that the Light will prevail. Let us make it a point to turn away from every cloud of darkness and seek with all our hearts to live in the light. The seeking, the desire, will not be ignored; Jesus will fill in whatever is lacking. "Ask and you shall receive." (Mt 7:7)

Bro. Rene