Title: The light of the world.

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 8:12 KJV

Devotion: In the gospel according to St John, the light team was extensively used. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:5). This light is Jesus as John the Baptist testified to him: “He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light” (John 1:8). Even though he had “his light” (John 5:35), Jesus is only true light that came into the world (John 1:9). However, up until John 8:12, the author only indirectly says that Jesus is the light. But, in John 8:12 Jesus proclaims himself to the people including Pharisees (John 8:13) and the Jews (John 8:22) as the light of the world in public for the first time: “I am the light of the world.”

If Jesus is the light, what does the world mean here? In John’s gospel, the world is the realm where the darkness dominates, because “people [in the world] love the darkness rather than the light” (John 3:19). The world is an opponent of Jesus: “It hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil” (John 7:7). However, the world is not an object that God and Jesus hate but the very object that God loves, so that God sent the son, Jesus: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son” (John 3:16). Nevertheless, the world is evil and dominated by darkness as Jesus clearly differentiates himself from the world: “I am not of this world” (John 8:23). Therefore, it needs the light, Jesus, and to be saved: “God…sent the Son into the world…in order that the world might be saved through him” (John 3:17). Jesus came into the world as the light. Therefore, whoever follows him, who is the light, will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life (John 8:12). It is because Jesus, the light, is the life itself, “the life was the light of all men” (John 1:4), as well as he has received the life from the Father, “For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself” (John 5:26). 

Dearly beloved, I wish you would rather walk in this light rather than darkness so that you will not stumble. Let's have your opinion on this. Hallelujah

By Joel Olanrewaju @ ojays.blogspot.com with material from https://www.grin.com/document/1025274#:~:text=Jesus%20came%20into%20the%20world,(John%208%3A12).