Who Leads?

John 8:12  Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”


Amazing claim is it not. I am the light of the world. Clearly the sun is the light of the world. Then again isn't it kind of funny that the sun is the light of the physical world and the Son is the light of the spiritual world. We had the second of our leadership training sessions this late afternoon. I spoke in my group briefly about the way I could suddenly see when Jesus was revealed to me. Clearly it was the dawn of Son shine in my life and I had new eyes and a new heart with which to experience the world.


I have actually known people who have experienced this Son shine and have chosen to walk back at least into the shade if not the darkness. We are not forced to follow Jesus even after a first experience of His spectacular light. We often have trouble with the follow. It's like a dance where people actually touch one another; only one person can lead or toes get mashed and stumbling becomes all too common. We refuse to let Jesus lead even when we say we are following Him. Inevitably that leads to the dark or at least the shade.


A song you might no has the line, "I want to walk as a child of the light." but do we really? I wonder?