Jesus speaks to us about light and darkness. He makes it very clear to this lost world. He tells us that there are twelve hours in a day. If anyone walks in the day , he can see. Therefore, he does not stumble.
John 11: 9-10 tells us: “Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him”.
During the light of the sun, most people do their work safely. When darkness comes they stop. But this has a deeper meaning! As long as the Son did his Father’s will during the daylight hours of His ministry when He is able to work, He was safe. The time would soon come when the night falls and by God’s design His earthly work would end and He would “stumble” in death. What I think is that as long as Jesus was on earth doing his Father’s will, even in the late hour close to sun down, He would safely complete God’s purposes.
We as humans, when we try to walk at night without the light of the “Son”, we will stumble and fall. I use this reference to bring us to this point. Jesus is the Son. He is the light that will light our path.
The lost of this world do not have the benefit of the “Son”. There is absolutely no light in their path. They do not see the objects that Satan lays in the way for them.
Sometime Satan will make life glitter. But his glitter has no light. He makes things look so good, so enticing to people but he fails to show people the end results of broken health, broken homes, sometime prison time and in some cases the loss of life. When people die without the saving grace of Jesus Christ they are bound for a burning Hell. This is the sad part. There is not turning back. There is no second chance.
He will say ‘depart from me, I never knew you’. (Matthew 7:23) ‘I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!’ So many times people love the praise of men rather than the praise of God. This is another reason men walk in darkness rather than light. There are very few Christians today that get much praise from man. So they follow the crowd where Satan dictates the life style. Satan is in the dark but he gives you a false security that seems like ‘light’. A lot of people today think if they are liked by man and have popularity, they have the world by the tail. That is just what they have; ‘the world’. Jesus tells us that we as Christians must live in this world but we must not be a part of it.
And we must have a forgiveing heart.
If we don't forgive one another when they have wronged us, just as when we sin aganist God and He forgives and wipes the slate clean then.
When Jesus hung on the cross He showed depth of forgivness, He said Farther forgive them for they know what they do.
When Stephen was being stoned to death and Paul was holding his coat, Stephen said Lord don't lay this charge to them. Now Brother that is true forgiveness. Amd most of us can't even forgive a Christian Brother or Sister when they just say some little frivolus thing to us.
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