Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Christ, Our True Light, was written by Patricia Rabin.

Go to the Light!

That's what my husband advised as we struggled to find our way out of a big city hospital on a recent Sunday afternoon. We'd visited a friend, and when we exited an elevator, we couldn't find anyone during weekend hours to point us to the front doors and the brilliant Colorado

sunlight. Roaming around half-lit hallways, we finally encountered a man who saw our confusion.

These hallways all look the same, he said, but the exits this way. With his directions, we found the exit doors, leading indeed to the

bright sunlight. Jesus invited confused, lost unbelievers to follow him out of their spiritual

darkness in John chapter 8. I am the light of the world, he said.

Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness,

but will have the light of life.

In his light, we can see stumbling blocks, sin, and blind spots,

allowing him to remove such darkness from our lives as he shines his light into our hearts and on our path. Like the pillar of fire that led the

Israelites through the wilderness, Christ's light brings us God's presence, protection,

and guidance. As John explained in John Chapter 1, Jesus is the true light and the darkness has

not overcome it. Instead of wandering through life, we can seek him for direction

as he lights the way. Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from John

1, verse 1 through 14. In the beginning was the

word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him,

all things were made. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. In him was life,

and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the

darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning

that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light. He came only

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