The light

Encourage the use of Advent time.
Bigger? How bigger? After all, at school and everywhere else, we are taught all our lives that John the Baptist is the greatest of the prophets. And now this. And yet it is so. Jesus firmly states:
“Among those born of women, no one greater than John the Baptist arose. But that, he who is smaller in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he ”(Math 11:11).

What did Jesus mean by that greatness? The truth is that John the Baptist is indeed the greatest of the prophets, for his unique position in the kingdom of God, he made an old covenant and opened the New. He deserves to be called the greatest of all prophets because he was the first messenger Malachi spoke of. And yet Jesus exalts him above him as well the last of his disciples. Why? Because of Jesus’ disciple through the donation, the experience of His redemptive power gained a deeper insight into the essence of Jesus’ action than it was given to John. But if this was true of those who knew Jesus then, how much more today it applies to us, through whose history the greatness and glory of Jesus was even more miraculously revealed.

Conscious of his importance, John the Baptist did not forget God, his glory did not rise to his head, but he grew tighter and harder toward Him. He wasn’t just a cane swept in the wind; he was a fixed column. How are we doing? We are really worthy of the label he used on us.
Christ? Are we really bigger than John the Baptist, or are we just playing at someone? Let’s not forget that even a small light can radiate even the densest darkness, just like at one concert. Years ago, a lecture was held with a music program at the celebration of the anniversary of the great composer. When they started playing the first song of the evening after the opening program, they turned off current. One instrument after another, stopped playing in the middle of the bar. Uncertainty seized people, some fearful, some got up and went looking for the east, slipped, and fell to the ground. Panic began to arise, somehow hysterically, he shouted. Someone lit a lighter. A small flame of light began to search through the darkness and uncertainty. Types the lighter helped him, a few dozen lights burned in the auditorium for a while so that the organizers could turn on the auxiliary unit. After a while, the chandeliers lit up, the musicians grabbed the instruments, and the music removed the last remnants of nervousness.

Darkness breeds fear and despair. Darkness is a sin. Light inspires and gives joy. That’s the picture of the grace in which Christ himself comes. The night progressed, the day approached. Christ’s Day coming in the flesh, in grace, to the court.

It all means Advent. We have almost half of Advent behind us. Half
the time when we are to prepare for the coming of the One who will change the world. As we have so far used? We play that we are, or are a real light, or a lamp for our surroundings. Let us think that Christ will not come into darkness. Let’s be at least a small light for our neighbors, as was the lighter in the concert hall because even a small flame can be a source of great light.