Walk While You Have The Light

Nathanael and I were reading from John 12 a few nights ago. I thought that these words of Jesus were especially challenging, and appropriate:

The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.
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The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.

Jesus originally spoke these words as He prepared to give His life. Many people around Him did not take advantage of the incredible blessing they had to have the Son of Man right in front of them.

Today we still have so much light – in some ways, even more – in the world after the cross and resurrection. Will we walk in the light or the darkness?

Later in the chapter are these sobering words:

…many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.