Light of the world

A camping trip event I will never forget! About 5 out of our group went for a hike early in the afternoon. They only planned to be gone a few hours. As the sun began to set I started to think something possibly went wrong when they weren't back yet. We were in the canyons of the Rio Grande, in Mexico and now it was pitch dark and nothing. A friend and I decided to hike up a little hill so we could see the mountain they hiked.

We got up there and shined our flashlights at the top to see if there was any sign of the missing group. We waited and nothing. So we tried again and nothing.... And then all of a sudden a flash of light came from the very top. and again and again. An SOS. A cry for help.

We couldn't leave them up there, it was cold, who knows what had happened. What if one of them got hurt. He had to save them. They were stranded. Alone, no gear to survive the night. We made that hike up the mountain, in the dark, in the cold. We flashed the light a couple times to let them know we were coming.

When we remember the birth of Jesus this Christmas, what we should see is The Light of the world. We might be having a tough time in this difficult economy. The holidays might bring up depressing thoughts and memories. The measure of our culture might be making you feel like YOU just don't measure up, telling you Your not worth it, its too tough, give up. Your stranded. You feel like there's no hope.
But then you look up. You see Jesus, The light of the world. The hope of humanity. And you see the light shining. And it shines so bright that You know He's coming. He's coming for YOU, because your worth it. He loves you that much. And as long as you see the light, you know that you can hang on. Your gonna make it. No matter how tough, or cold, or hard it gets.

Jesus said in John 8:12 "Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" and in 14:6 "I Am the life".

Jesus didn't say that He is the life, The Light of the world, that He alone is the only way to Heaven because He was arrogant. He said it to let you know there is no one else coming for you. There is no other god that loves you and gave everything to be with you.