Good morning.
If you are reading this, it means you’ve made it safe through the dark days of the storm that began at the end of the weekend. I arrived at the church on Monday morning to find it was dark. The power had gone off.
Many of you know that we have a food pantry in the church with visiting hours for the community on Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings. I immediately phoned the resource manager of the facility as there are freezers as well. At the end of the call, we both prayed together, and asked the Lord for help. I’m happy to say that the power was restored not even 2 hours later. Praise God for both power and light.
In the first letter of John, he makes the case that in our lives, our reliable light source is Jesus, Himself, the Son Of God.
“God is light, in him there is no darkness at all” (1 Jn 1:5).
John also notes that the light works into the power of the blood,
“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin” (1 Jn 1:7).
In his commentary, Bible teacher Warren Wiersbe shares how God reveals Himself through His creation, but there’s an additional – and vital – revelation. Wiersbe notes that we also have “the Word of life” (1 Jn 1:1). And we have the eyewitness testimony of the apostles, including John, who tells us,
“[That] which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life” (1 Jn 1:1).
John had seen the blood of Christ shed on the cross.
He saw the resurrected One.
He received the promised Spirit.
Light is this: Jesus appeared on earth as one of us, and eternal life is only through Him.
I’m excited for the Sunday Service this weekend. Joe and the team will facilitate worship, and then I’ll continue on in the With-God life sermon series.
Grace and peace,
Seth
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