Our Life and Light

2-1-23

My devotion for today is based on John 1:18, “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.”

Sometimes I hear people talk of the Old Testament times as though they were the ‘bad old days’, which Jesus came to earth to fix, but God’s grace has been there from the start. It’s just that in Jesus Christ’s life, death and resurrection we see all the grace, hope, and light stacked together – ‘gift after gift after gift’ – and we see that God has been and continues to be present in every moment.

As believers, most of us would struggle to express or even to understand God’s mysteries in the way John does, but God’s Spirit enables us each to reflect Jesus Christ, God’s life and light, in our unique ways. As John pointed not to himself but to Jesus the Messiah, the ‘light of all humankind,’ may our lives and words always point to God’s ultimate gift of life and light.
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Please pray with me: Jesus Christ – our life and light – we cannot thank you enough for all you have done for us. And yet we ask for something more: the grace to reflect your life and light in our daily lives. Thank you that you hear us and desire to bless us. Amen.