Jesus says, "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12). Light reveals, light makes manifest, and that is the first way in which we must all know the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other like Him. His very presence among men was the condemnation of all other men, for here, at last, was one Man absolutely holy, utterly true, perfectly righteous. Every other man was shown up alongside Him as sinful and full of iniquity. Men turned away from Him, fearing the illumination that His presence brings. But nevertheless He is the light of the world and all men are going to be judged by the light that Jesus Christ brought into this scene.

Jesus continues to say, "He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." It is through the knowledge of Christ and subjection to Him that deliverance is given from darkness and its awful power (Colossians 1:13). Are you a Christless soul? Do you want to be delivered from the darkness? Do you want to know the Light? Then go to Him or you will never find it. When you come in faith to Him, He will open your eyes and illumine your mind to understand the deep things of God. Then you will have found, like millions more, the "Light of life."

—H.A. Ironside