If your on any journey, through any terrain, in making it to the end safely and successfully, light is really, really important.

Lighthouses are critical for revealing the presence of danger While voyaging on their journey.

Did you know that you also are on a journey?

PAUL IN HIS WRITINGS OFTEN LIKENED THE CHRISTIAN LIFE TO RUNNING A RACE.

A. At the end of his life he wrote to Timothy, “I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7)

B. To the elders of Ephesus, “But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.” (Acts 20:24)

C. The Letter to the Hebrew Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)

You have a race marked out for you. We are all running. Your journey has begun. Some of us have been running longer than others. But we are all moving somewhere.

But are you running in the right direction? Or have you drifted off your course? Are you headed for danger or even catastrophe? How can you know?

You see, to discover the course and to stay the path you need to be running in the light.

• When we are not running in the light, we are likely to lose our way.
• When we don’t have the light we can assume we are heading in the right direction, that all is well.

It is the light that allows us to adjust our stride and our direction. To see where we are and where we need to go.
In John 8 Jesus says, I am The light of the world…

As with I am the bread of life, he says it in response to a situation. It comes out of a context. Just before he says this He has been dealing with the woman caught in adultery.

Here is a woman who had lost her way. She found herself in a situation far from where, I’m sure, she set out to arrive. I don’t think this was her plan for her life, but circumstances, events, previous relationships, hardships, heartbreaks. It doesn’t say, but she was lost and in the midst of her darkness, and in the midst of her pain, came the light of the world. Jesus Christ. Not to condemn, but to save.

Jesus uses this situation to announce, I am the light of the world, whoever comes to me will never walk in darkness.

You don’t have to commit adultery to have lost your way or drifted off course. Even as believers we can drift from the path that Jesus has set out for us. I don’t think any of us run a perfect race.

If only it was like a running track, with lines and perfectly smooth. Sometimes is, But other times more like a cross country, man v wild, survival spectacle. Easy to lose your course, your sense of direction, when you don’t know where your going, or if your not sure your heading in the right direction..

So how do we stay orientated toward the finish line?
Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Jesus is the Word and is his word is the light of life. Have you ever been in a black out? Ever been caught in the dark in a place you are not familiar with?

In life sometimes we do end up in places that maybe we never planned to be. Headed somewhere and yet now its dark and it’s unfamiliar and we are trying to find the way out.

Maybe in marriage, maybe in our career, maybe our dream or plans.

If you look at the life of King David, you see that at times he found himself in a number of places like that.
>Minding the sheep
>Cave of addullum
>Ziklag
>Absolom
I’m sure it was during these times that David discovered which he later wrote in Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path

When you don’t know what to do, when you don’t know where to go. You can go to God in his word and find a lamp. A lamp unto your feet and a light to your path.

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