Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12 NKJV)

Over the past few days we have been thinking about mentions of light in the Bible around the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Our final light is not to do with His birth but something He said of Himself when He was a Man.  This sentence that He spoke neatly sums up the reason He came into the world: in order to bring all those that believe in Him out of darkness and into light.  It’s a very bold claim but the Bible tells us that we can trust what He says because He is the Son of God and He guarantees us that if we trust in Him we will have the light of life.  The life that He gives us is eternal life.  The Lord Jesus spoke of what those that follow Him will receive from Him: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand (John 10:28).  There may be many people or philosophies in this world that claim to give enlightenment but there are none that can claim to give us eternal life.  This is what makes the Lord Jesus the true Light and the only One that can bring us out of the darkness of sin.  These words of the Lord Jesus are as true today as they were on the day that He spoke them and you can come into the good of them right now if you trust Him as your Saviour.   As you look at the lights this Christmas remember the One who is the light of the world that gave Himself so we can have life if we trust in Him.