Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 3 verses 17 through 20:
17 ‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
When I read the book of John I see so many in hiding. They are afraid of the light because they hate the light. They hate the light because they hate themselves. They hate what they have done and become. The light is too much for them to bear.
But the light has not come into the world to condemn the darkness. The son has not come into the world to condemn the world.
So many are so afraid. They live in fear of being found out. They hide, they evade, and they condemn; but the condemnation of others is a hedge against their own condemnation.
The Gospel message is the promise that there is no condemnation for those willing to live in the light. There is no condemnation for those who trust and give themselves to the light.
But that requires true surrender; and that for most of us is the hardest part.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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