The family that won the title for the most Christmas lights in 2014 hung 601,736 lights. However, their record was surpassed by God, Who lit only one light.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. – ( Isaiah 9:2)
How could one light beat out more than 600,000? God’s light spread and multiplied. What sort of light could do that? John said it like this:
In him [Jesus] was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4 My parenthetical note)
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. – ( John 1:9)
Now, if the light that shone in the darkness is the life that was in Jesus, how did it become “the light of men?”
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. – ( John 1:11-13)
Life begins with birth. Since God’s light is life, it is multiplied through the process of birth in those who receive it. No mere physical birth, it is nothing less than the birth in a human being of God’s eternal life. As He said it would, this light has spread around the world. 601,736 lights? Not even close…
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