Friday, March 23rd

Today's passage from the Chronological Bible In a Year Reading Plan is Joshua 1-4.

Today's scripture focus is John 1:6-9.

⁶ There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. ⁸ He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. ⁹ The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. 

Here John is very careful to let the readers know that he himself was not the light, the light was Jesus.

My Life Application Bible says this....
We, like John the Baptist, are not the source of God's light; we merely reflect that light.  Jesus Christ is the true Light; he helps us see our way to God and shows us how to walk along that way.  But Christ has chosen to reflect his light through his followers to an unbelieving world, perhaps because unbelievers are not able to bear the full blazing glory of his light firsthand. The word witness indicates our role as reflectors of Christ's light. We are never to present ourselves as the light to others, but are always to point them to Christ, the Light.

Are we reflecting the light of Christ to the world?

Tomorrow's scripture focus: John 1:10-13

Tomorrow's Bible In a Year Passage passage: Joshua 5-8