“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. (John 12:27-35, NRSV)
Jesus told the people that the Son of Man would be lifted up from the earth to indicate the kind of death He would die. It also goes along with Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness so all who gaze on the serpent would live. As we gaze upon Jesus high and lifted up on the cross, we see the love that God has for us and our darkness goes away. We see the light and continue for all eternity in that light.
But sometimes our darkness seems to be deeper than that and we can not find our way out even with Jesus. Well, Jesus is with us in our darkness and will never leave us. He will light our way even when our darkness is too much for us to see His light. His light is still shining and He will always lead us on.
So know what His death and rising has done for you and know that His light is always shining in your life, even when you can’t see it.
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