Jesus proclaimed, “I am the light of the world.” He has come to dispel the darkness of sin. Have you noticed the places where people do things that are underhanded or against the laws of people or against the laws of God often are dark and have very little light? Darkness is a way to hide our sins”¦the things we do that are shameful.

Light gives understanding and can give us a clearer picture of what we should know. When we start down the slippery path of rejecting the Lord Jesus, we slip and slide our way away from Him into the shadowy depths of denial and even betrayal. Judas Iscariot had done that”¦

As Jesus sat at the Passover meal with His disciples He told Judas to go and do quickly what he intended, which was to betray Jesus to the religious leaders:

(NASB) John 13:28-29 “Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.

29 For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “˜Buy the things we have need of for the feast”™; or else, that he should give something to the poor.”

Eleven disciples were oblivious to what Jesus had clearly stated when He said that Judas was His betrayer. They could not conceive of such a thing. They, themselves, had not thought along those lines and they were clueless. Not because of Jesus hiding the truth from them, but because they were without guile. They had other faults, but betrayal was not one of them.

Rejection of Jesus leads to darkness of thoughts, attitudes, motives and actions. Notice verse 30: (NASB) John 13:30 “So after receiving the morsel he (Judas Iscariot) went out immediately; and it was night.”

It was in the darkness of night that Judas Iscariot left to betray Jesus; he had fallen into the trap of refusing Jesus”™ light.

Receiving or rejecting Jesus

is like the difference between day and night.