What does it mean to be the light of the world? Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth. God has called us not just to

survive in this world, but to be light that pushes back the darkness. This is the Revive Our

Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of The Wonder of His Name.

For March 23rd, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Here in the weeks leading up to our celebration of Jesus' resurrection from the dead, Nancy is in the series, The Wonder of His Name, 32 life-changing names of Jesus.

We're looking this week at Jesus, the great I Am, and several of the I am statements in the gospel of John.

We looked yesterday at John 6 where Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

And today we're going to be in John 8 where Jesus says, I am the light of the world.

Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light

of life. That's John 8, verse 12. Now, I've never been good at science, and my fifth grade teacher

wrote on my report card, Nancy seems overwhelmed by our study of electricity.

It was true then, it's true now.

But I tried to do a little research on this thing of light for this study, and I found myself being a bit overwhelmed again, trying to understand some of these things.

But here are a few things I did grasp.

Light is amazing.

We take it for granted.

We don't think consciously a lot about light.

You know that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

Did I get that right?

I think that's right.

And that only a tiny portion of the entire spectrum of light, which they call

the electromagnetic spectrum, only a tiny portion of that whole spectrum is visible to our eyes.

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