John 3:16-21 The Light John

John 3
16 “For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him. 18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. 19 And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. 20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. 21 But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants."

When I was a kid growing up on a farm in Southern Michigan we had chickens. A lot of chickens. Every spring my dad would buy a bunch of chicks and we would raise them for food. During the summer we would have eggs and in the fall he would slaughter them for the freezer. We had fun playing with the chicks, hated having to collect the eggs and ran around the yard screaming when dad lopped off their heads. He would swing the ax, drop them and grab the next. They ran around the yard with no head until their reflexes gave out. Looking back, it sounds cruel but we found it hilarious. 

Back to the eggs. When we got too many eggs for our family of eight to consume, my mom would sell them. We would wash the eggs and check them for blood spots. We did this by holding them up to a light. Blood spots showed up as dark spots inside. The eggs all looked the same on the outside. The light exposed the flaws inside the egg. 

Light exposes our flaws too. Those flaws are sin. People may not see them when they look at us. We look like everyone else in the light of day but Jesus sees what's inside. He sees our sin. We may be able to hide our sin from others but when we are held up the the Light, when we are held up to Jesus, our sin is exposed.

Blessings, Cecilia