John 1:5 (NLT) “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.”
At Christmas season, we flick on the lights in the church, in our homes, in our front and backyard, in the streets, in the malls, everywhere. We celebrate Christmas with light as it symbolizes the coming of Jesus Christ, the Light of the World (John 8:12). While the Christmas light is on, the essence of the light tends to affect us. People feel more loving, more forgiving, more giving, more patient, more joyful, more positive. And after Christmas, when the lights were gone, those attitude of optimism suddenly become flickering, not steady, and most of the time, went out too. It is because, we are not seeing the light that affects us, the light that we flicked on.
But there is one Light that God flicked on. GOD said in Genesis 1:3, “ “Let there be light”, and there was light.” Then our verse for today, John 1:5 says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” Just for the sake of literality, GOD had separated darkness from light in Genesis 1:3 does not mean, that when it is night, darkness put the lights out. NO, the source of light which is the sun is still there, we can still see in the dark because the sun is still there, the darkness have not extinguished it. In fact, the sun that still shining on the other part of the globe, reflects light to the moon, whether moon is visible or not, it gives us light in the darkness of the night.
Going back to spirituality, 1 John 1:5-7 says, “God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other.”
The essence of the light of Christmas is banishing because we focus on the temporal lights we flicked on. If we can only focus on the Light that God flicked on, then the Essence of this inextinguishable Light will be always there radiating in us to stay more loving, more forgiving, more, giving, more patient, more joyful, more steady. If we are devout on the Word of GOD, Jesus Christ, the true light, (John 1:4,9), we will not grow weary from doing good. We will be constantly loving even others are not loving, because we are tended by the inextinguishable Light. We will also become light to the world (Matt. 5:14). We will glow in the dark. We will become somewhat like those birthday candles that are unquenchable even how much others blow it, still springs up. We will continue to give light because our source of LIGHT will never be put out, and so are we. We continue to do good even others are not.
Time will come, that those who live in the Light, those who continue to do good even it is not easy, will share the inheritance promised by the Father (Colossians 1:12). Revelation 21:23-27 says, “And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light. The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the world will enter the city in all their glory. 25 Its gates will never be closed at the end of day because there is no night there. 26 And all the nations will bring their glory and honor into the city. 27 Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
From now on, let us all fix our gazes on Jesus Christ, the Light that can never be extinguished. AMEN
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