The light of God

Jehovah transmits spiritual light primarily through his inspired Word, the Bible. So by studying it and getting knowledge from God, we allow His light to come to us. Through the Scriptures, Jehovah sheds light on his purposes and teaches us to do his will, which gives us meaning in life and helps us meet our spiritual needs (Ecclesiastes 12: 1, Matthew 5: 3). Jesus emphasized that we must attend to these needs when, quoting from the Law, he pointed out: "It is written: 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every expression that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord'" (Matthew 4: 4, Deuteronomy 8: 3)

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Jesus is very attached to the spiritual light. In fact, he presented himself as "the light of the world" and said: "He who follows me will by no means walk in darkness, but will possess the light of life" (John 8:12). These words help us to understand the fundamental place that Jesus occupies in the transmission of the truth of Jehovah to humanity. In order to flee from the darkness and walk in the divine light, we must listen to everything Jesus says and follow with attention his example and his teachings, which we know thanks to the Bible.

There is no doubt about it, everyone likes to ... walk in the light. It is much more pleasant to travel, day than night. By day we can contemplate the beauty of the landscape that God has created for our delight. When dawn everything returns to take the color, that the darkness of the night kidnapped him. The people, the animals, the plants, the flowers, the trees, all awaken to life. The silence of the night disappears, invaded by the noises of life, because everything that moves is because it has life, and those that it moves produces the noise that gives us faith in life. The human being and the animals love the light, simply because they have been created by the Light itself, since in synthesis we can say that the Lord is an eternal light of Love.

The light comforts us, it gives us light, it gives us love and well-being, it is the light that we like. It is the light that allows us to use our dearest sense of sight. If there is something that people would not like to happen to them, it is to lose sight, to go blind. He who lacks touch or taste or even the deaf, does not inspire compassion, but the blind inspires us. The darkness always inspires us fear, they distance us from the security that every human being craves, light soothes and calms us. For many children, their mothers can not turn off the light in their bedroom, because the child is afraid. Instinctively the darkness produces repulsion, and that is, because we are all simply made for light, we are made by the Light itself and for the Light of love that is the Lord.

In another passage more explicitly, the Lord tells us: "I, the light, have come into the world so that everyone who believes in me will not continue in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him, because I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects me and does not receive my words, has someone to judge him: the Word that I have spoken, that will judge him on the last day "(Jn 12, 46-48). In this passage, Jesus clearly affirming that He is the Light is telling us: I am God, and for your sake I have come here, so that my Light can bring you out of the darkness of sin and evil that you have. enslaved.

With the arrival of the Lord, the path of Light was opened to all mankind, for that reason in the Gospel of Saint Matthew it can be read: "The people who dwelt in darkness have seen a great light; to those who dwell in the places of the shadow of death, a light has appeared to them "(Mt 4:16). And in the song of the Benedictus, which Zechariah exclaimed when he regained his speech on the day of the birth of his son St. John the Baptist, Zechariah exclaimed in one of the parts of this song: "By the tender mercy of our God,The sun that rises from above will visit us, to enlighten those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps along the path of peace. " It is the announcement of the birth of Our Redeemer.

While we have life we are on time, but when we least expect it will end the way and as we are at that time, so we will remain eternally on the side of the balance that we have chosen, according to the path of light or darkness that we have traveled .