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Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”   --John 8:12 When I was a boy growing up in Ft. Worth, Texas, I remember seeing a homeless man on the street around Christmas one year. It was apparent that the man was blind, and he held a sign that read, “The sun is shining, but I cannot see.” And you know, there really are a lot of people like that poor man in the world today. There’s a Light to be seen…but so many people are blind to it. All of us know what it’s like to be in a pitch-dark room where you can’t see your hand in front of your face. Where you have vision…but you can’t see. Where there is sight…but no light. Maybe you feel like your life is filled with darkness today…and the light of reason, the light of logic, the light of conscience have all failed you. If so, remember you have light through Jesus Christ…the One who is “the light of the world.” So focus on Him! As the old hymn says, O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s a light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free! Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. If you are weary and troubled, look up to Jesus today!

Going God’s Way

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Matthew 7:13–14

Perhaps you have seen an artistic depiction of the teaching of Jesus on the broad way and the narrow way. Often artists will portray a wide, well-paved road leading through the middle of a valley while far off on the side there is a narrow winding path leading up the mountainside. That is a gripping image, but the reality is that sometimes the “narrow way” runs directly next to the “broad way,” only going the opposite direction. To use another analogy, sometimes God’s children must follow Him by “swimming upstream” against the current of the world.
It reminds me of the joke about an elderly man who was driving home when his cell phone rang. His wife said, “Herman, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong direction on the freeway Please be careful!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Herman. “There are hundreds of them!” If we are committed to following God, then the world will view us as going in the wrong direction. The world’s children and God’s children should not agree, because we do not have a common goal.
Many Christians wrongly think that if they will just tone down the message of the gospel to make it less offensive, they will have a greater impact on the world. But we must be committed to pleasing God, not to making friends of the world. “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you” (John 15:19).
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

The only way we can follow God is by ignoring the call of the world to walk in men’s wisdom.