[John 12:44-50] True Light = Eternal Life
“Then Jesus cried out, ‘Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.'” [44-45]
Jesus came to us as a light. He is the source of all light. We know that the moon lacks luminosity, and that it is merely reflecting sunlight. We know that the light we see from the stars are years old. The stars we know are in the past.
However, there is a light on this world that shines directly into each person’s heart. [John 1:9] This light is Jesus, God’s son, and displays the majesty of God the Father, the ultimate source. [1:18] This light does not merely display a God of the past, it shows us the God of the present; the God who is with us in this very moment. This is because God the Father is one with Jesus. Not even a moment is between them.
Jesus claims that his words and deeds come from God the Father. Therefore, God the Father and Jesus says the same thing. Exactly. [50] Jesus lived by God’s command. He states that obedience to God’s commands is the key to eternal life. When we dwell within Jesus, we no longer dwell in the darkness. [46]
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” [John 17:3]
Amen