In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of Man

 What does it mean that Jesus was the light of man? I asked

God yesterday (21/1/21). 

There is only 2 points to interpret Scripture as founded in Genesis 1 2 and 3. You see beyond Genesis 3 is the life of man in sin and God working to bring His son through the line of Abraham. So to know what life is with God before the fall, its all in Genesis 1 and 2. 

Man had everything given to Him. A purpose, supply, security and his freedom with God. That tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was God's point of tithe for man to pay unto the Lord. Man could have everything except he could not consume the fruit of that one tree ! In it was boundary set between man and God. God is God. Man is not god and can never be.

1. God is God and we are not

2. "GOD SAID" is authority and Reality. Means God's word is authority because HE SAID , all were created and done. He said and the fruition of that is our REALITY. This is the fundamental basis of faith. Jesus is the living word..Jesus is the image of the Father to us. Why did Jesus have to come? because man had to see the Father in person...in HIS SON !

So lets not digress but Jesus is life and our light (John 1:4) What does it mean?

God brought me back to Genesis 1 and 2.You see when God first made man what did HE SAID?

God's plan and reality.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

(Genesis 1:26-28,NKJV)

This is how He did it

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 

(Genesis 2:7)

GOD SAID let us made man. When man was formed of dust (WE ARE MERE DUST), man was dead - DARKNESS - no light, NO LIFE. It was ONLY WHEN GOD breathed into man the breath of life (HOLY SPIRIT) that man became a LIVING BEING.

What did GOD breathed in to man ? the SPirit of HIS WORD ! The Holy Spirit. No wonder one of the important steps to take after accepting Jesus the WORD of LIFE and being born again, one needs to ask God for the Holy Spirit ! thats when you come ALIVE !

So man is in darkness without LIGHT. ONLY WHEN THE BREAD OF LIFE only WHEN THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE comes into our live, we CAN SEE ! because in HIM is LIFE ..and THIS LIFE is OUR LIGHT ! .

TRUE LIFE flows when we come to God as worshipper as children. Not as playing god.Remember Eli told a young Samuel ...When you hear Him call, say "SPEAK LORD (acknowledging His authority over you) your SERVANT (posture of our hearts-and the reality of our life in GOD) listens.

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