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Jesus said "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life." John 14:12

Last night I watched the film Luther based on Martin Luther, the 16th Century German Monk who brought about the reformation. This was a time when true Christianity was practised outside of an immoral Roman Catholic church which was based on idolatry and money grabbing. Through his persistience and his devotion to his Saviour, he took on the greatest power of his day and won. He made the Bible accessible to the common man by translating it into German, paving the way for our own English versions. It was his search for the truth that underlined his passion to achieve this mammoth task. He found the truth as he read the illuminated words of his Saviour.

It was the light that gave him power and strength. Before he was blinded to the truth, but the more he studied the word the more he was convicted not just to believe it, but to act upon it. It wasn’t out of duty, but it was born out of love for God. In his time the Roman church scared the people into conforming to its way and left them empty, frightened and without hope or certainty. But the true gospel is about liberty and not suppression, it is about hope and truth — and truth sets you free (John 8:32)!

What hit me about Luther’s story was how ordinary our lives are compared to his. We know precious little of this way of life, but how we should want it. To be so overwhelmed by the love of God and so consumed by his light or truth that we will not rest until that which concerns us has come out of darkness and into line with his light.

It may not be a reformation of the church, it maybe a person, an area, something that needs illumination. Something that is dead because Christ isn’t Lord of it and you are determined that with God’s help it may have life.

Labels: convicted, Determined, Light

posted by Andy Hodson - Thursday, 14 June 2007, 22:32
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