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“The Light of Life”
This chapter is based on John 8:12-59; 9.
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk
in darkness, but have the light of life.”
It was morning. The sun had just risen above the Mount of Olives,
and its rays fell with dazzling brightness on the marble palaces and
lighted up the gold of the temple walls when Jesus pointed to it and
said, “I am the light of the world.” Long afterward the apostle John
re-echoed these words in that sublime passage, “In Him was life, and
the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it. ... That was the true Light
which gives light to every man coming into the world.”
John 1:4,
5, 9
. God is light, and in the words, “I am the light of the world,”
Christ declared His oneness with God and His relation to the whole
human family. It was He who had caused the “light to shine out of
darkness” at the beginning.
2 Corinthians 4:6
. He is the light of sun,
moon, and stars. As the sunbeams penetrate to the farthest corners
of the earth, so does the light of the Sun of Righteousness shine on
every person.
“That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming
into the world.” People of giant intellect and wonderful research,
whose words have opened vast fields of knowledge, have been hon-
ored as benefactors of the human race. But One stands higher than
all of them. “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right
to become children of God. ... No one has seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
declared Him.”
John 1:12, 18
. We can trace the line of the world’s
great teachers as far back as human records extend, but the Light was
before them. As the moon and the planets of the solar system reflect
the light of the sun, so (as far as their teaching is true) do the world’s
great thinkers reflect the rays of the Sun of Righteousness. The true
“higher education” is what Jesus gives, “in whom are hidden all
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