Why Jesus Came, part 2

The Light

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. __John 12:46__

The rabbis and sages taught that the Bible could be boiled down to the idea that light overcomes darkness. From the moment of creation, when God himself separates light from darkness and calls the light good (but not the darkness), light has fought an ongoing war with darkness. Jesus not only came as a light but as the Light. There is no such thing in existence as true darkness; darkness, no matter how deep and black, is simply the absence of light. Jesus’ way of living, his way of being fully human, is the light that chases away the darkness found in all other ways of living. All other ways of living are darkness, though they may be varying shades of murkiness, and even, at times, contain reflections of the Light, they are all of them darkness nonetheless. 

Jesus came as life-light into our life-darkness. 

shalom, matt