Tues.’s Devo - The Light of the World

Read Ex. 37:17-24 Next they constructed the candlestick with was a menorah, beaten of pure gold. It had 6 branches and a 7th that was the main trunk for the branches. Three times in John, Jesus said that he was the light come to the world and as long as he was here the world would have light. In John 9 a man who had been blind since birth was brought to Jesus. The people that brought him wanted to know if he was blind as the result of the sin of his parents, and Jesus said no. He was born blind so that the works of God should be revealed through Jesus. He then said, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Then he spat on the ground and made clay and anointed the man’s eyes. He told him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam and when he did he came back seeing. Why did Jesus go to such theatrics to heal when all he had to do was say, “be healed” and he would have been? He was giving us a picture. The people’s eyes were spiritually blind just as this man was physically blind. When Jesus took that dust from which man was first formed and mixed it with his own saliva he was mixing heaven with earth. Jesus came to invade earth with the presence of God. We are to invade heaven to get it to come down to earth. He sent the man to the pool of Siloam which means “the sent one”. Jesus was the sent one. Once he was baptized in Jesus, the earthly mud was washed away and he could see. In Matt. 5:14, Jesus said, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Jesus has anointed us with his light so we should do the things he did. Lord, give us boldness to let your light shine through us that all may see our good works and glorify you.