Follow the Light

 

   “I am the light of the world.  Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

 

   The Light, Jesus Christ, has come to the world and will remain.  The Light leads all who follow Him to the gates of heaven.  Sadly, the world has rejected the Light and is trying very hard to ignore everything associated with God.  And yet St. John also tells us, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” (John 1: 5).  Try as they may the secularists and humanists of this world will never extinguish the eternal Light of Christ.

   The world would have us believe that truths are changeable based on human preference.  Adultery is not so bad, and neither is fornication or sodomy.  Abortion is a woman’s “right”, not the murder of innocent life in the womb.  Our elderly shouldn’t have to continue without “quality of life” and therefore should be euthanized.  The list of truths that are now considered to be only opinion is growing all the time.

   Bishop Fulton Sheen once said, “Moral principals do not depend on a majority vote.  Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong.  Right is right, even if nobody is right.”  Until we understand that truth always remains true the battle will continue.  Without a moral compass nothing is forbidden, nothing is wrong, it’s just a different way of interpreting things.

   “And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.”  (John 3: 19).  When we stand before Jesus, and we will whether we choose to believe it or not, He will not be interested in our opinions, He will only be interested in how well we have followed the Light. 

Lord Jesus, You are the Light.

Your Light shines in a darkened world.

Let Your Light shine in me.

Let me share it with the world. 

Amen