In the beginning was the word who was with God from the beginning and was God. God created w everything through Him. In Him was life and that life was the light of men.
We learn that Jesus is God, and is the second person of the trinity and He created everything.
His life was the light of men. How Jesus lived was the light of men.
If we are to be the light to others, we must allow the life of Jesus to be made manifest through us. The more the life of Jesus we partake of and manifest it in our daily contacts, the more light we'll have to guide others.
How much does the life of Christ flow through you at home and at the place of work? How do you react to situations? How do treat others? How do you speak during the day? Is there an aspect of Christ that others see in you or does they see the nature of Adam which easily gets offended and angry and speaks rudely and is critical and quick to judge others?
Seek God to partake more of the nature of Christ in your personal life.
The light shone in the darkness and darkness could not extinguish or overcome it.
Can someone extinguish the life of Christ in you? Does someone doing or speaking evil to you or about you extinguish the life of Christ in you? Do you speak evil of others because someone offended you? Can you imagine what would happen if Jesus allowed the light in Him to be extinguished by the forces of evil around Him? There would be no salvation for the world.
Follow Jesus. Don't allow the darkness around you overcome the life of Christ in you. Overcome evil be doing good. Rom 12:21
There was a man sent from God.
We see that whenever God wants to do something, He always sends a man. It's unfortunate today that we have many who claim to have been sent from God but God never sent them. The primary characteristic of those sent from God is that they are always seeking to lead you to God and not to get you attached to them.
One servant said once to His congregation, I suppose it was John Wesley, that if you disobeyed Him, you have not sinned, but if you disobey God and the scriptures, you have sinned. True servants will not lead you to be attached to them but to lead you to be attached to Christ. They are like the torch that clearly shows you the way but the hand that holds the light is scarcely seen. They are like sweet music people enjoy and the singer is scarcely seen. They always seek to show Christ clearly and disappear.
Jesus came to the world and they never recognised Him. His own rejected Him.
Unless God opens our eyes, we will not see Christ and we'll remain in darkness all our lives. Seek God that your eyes maybe opened.
As many believed Him, He gave them right to be the children of God. They were not born of the will of flesh or blood but of the will of God.
We learn here that is not us who choose God but it is God who chooses us.
Jesus took of human flesh and tabernacled amongst us. We saw His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and truth.
We see here the glory of God is not flashes of light as we always assume. It is the character of God revealed in Christ.
When Moses asked God to show Him His glory, God showed Him His character. Ex 33:18-19, 34:5-8. Goodness, compassion, merciful, long-suffering....
The glory of God is His character revealed in Christ. Christlikeness is the glory of God; full of grace and truth.
The Holy Spirit shows us the glory of Christ in the scriptures and then transforms us into the same image from glory to glory. 2Cor 3:18.
If we are constantly seeing the glory of Christ in His word, transformation is being done inwardly by the Holy Spirit in our lives and we are becoming more Christlike each year in our speech, in our actions, in our motives and attitudes, in our thoughts, in our complete surrender to God.
If you are not more Christlike now more than one year ago, you have wasted this year; but thank God He is a God of another chance. You can start today. Long to see the glory of Christ in the scriptures and allow the Holy Spirit to transform you inwardly. If you have this attitude, by the end of one year you will have made more spiritual progress more than you have made so far.
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@ _Blessed Mshindi Mambo_
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