Daily Devotional: Tuesday, October 1 – Jesus Is The Light

“When Jesus spoke once more to the folks, he stated, ‘I’m the sunshine of the world. Whoever follows me won’t ever stroll in darkness, however may have the sunshine of life.’” — John 8:12

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I’ve spoken many instances at a youth camp in a really distant a part of the Texas Hill Nation. As a result of this camp was so far-off from the town, there was little or no gentle air pollution. So at evening, the camp was extremely darkish. On some nights, when the moon wasn’t very shiny and the clouds lined the celebrities, I couldn’t even see my hand in entrance of my face. Yearly once I spoke at this camp, I needed to bear in mind to deliver a flashlight. The paths and pathways have been rocky, so if you happen to didn’t have a flashlight, you could possibly simply fall and journey going again to your cabin or to the chapel.

Proper now, as you learn this devotional, you aren’t studying this at midnight. However we do stay in a spiritually and morally darkish world. That’s the reason Jesus says in John 8:12 (above) that He’s the sunshine of the world. Since He’s God within the flesh, He got here to disclose God to the world. He got here to open the religious eyes of the spiritually blind to allow them to see and know God.

Like a flashlight offers illumination the place there may be darkness, Jesus got here to light up God and His will to us. He got here to deliver God’s goodness and glory. Whenever you belief Jesus, He brings gentle into your religious and ethical darkness. Whenever you stroll with Jesus by studying His Phrase, prayer, and being stuffed with the Holy Spirit, He leads you within the gentle.

— Ikki Soma, Iowa Wolves chaplain

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