SCRIPTURE: In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome (or understood) it. John 1:4-5 NIV
The first advent of Jesus brought a lot of light into the world, but many people missed it. Light is helpful, even miraculous the way it exposes everything — from the beautiful, to the mundane, to the downright evil. Journey with author and blogger Amy Clemens as she explores the advent of one who said he was the light of the world…a light that shines in darkness…that exposes. A light that will make a second advent, with a power and glory no one will miss.
THOUGHT: First, John wrote about The Word being not only with God, but in essence, God. Now, he pushes into other realities of the miraculous advent: wherever The Word goes, two very good things inseparable from God, life and light, follow. Jesus breaks into death and decay to bring life and into darkness to bring light. Like a fine, spring day in Michigan when a sunray lands on the crocus bed, piercing through wet, decaying leaves potent with mildew, and death-defying Advent arrives.
The earth glimpses life and light in a new way, and longings begin to take on a whole new dimension. Someday I will not be subject to sin, illness, decay, death, gravity, or matter for that matter. I will be like him, for I will see him as he is (1 Jn. 3:2). Of course the darkness can’t understand that! The Amplified Version puts it like this: “the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].” And doesn’t that list of words bring to mind the culture around us? Unreceptive to the miracle of incarnation? Can’t understand or appropriate or absorb a creation that can’t be tested by what humans can create? But, thank God, earthly knowledge can’t overcome the light and life that appeared 2000 years ago…and is coming again so that where he is, we may follow (Jn. 14:3).
PRAYER: Jesus, thank you for life and light. For starting a work 2000 years ago that you will bring to fruition.
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Blogger Amy Clemens is the author of Walking When You’d Rather Fly: Meditations on Faith After the Fall. In it she explores childhood sexual abuse and how it impacted her faith (or lack thereof) for four decades. You’ll find not only her story, but better yet, the Big Story of God.
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