While reading John 3, where Nicodemus comes to speak with Jesus, it reminded me how Jesus can be confrontational, and not afraid to call a spade a spade. It makes me smile when our Savior, The Light of the World, the Good Shepherd, puts us in our place, and we have to take it like a trooper because after all—He Is The Way, The Truth, and The Life. He is the one who knows us best, and there is no deceit in Him. He has no ulterior motives to make us look bad; He sees us for what we are. As a matter of fact, He doesn’t want us to look bad, He wants us to be sinless before His Father, our Almighty God.
When Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council, fails to understand the teaching of being born again, Jesus says, “You are Israel’s teacher, and do you not understand these things?” He continues, “I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.”
Jesus is basically saying to Nicodemus that those who should know better, don’t have a clue. And we see that in the area of abortion–that some who are rich in intelligence and knowledge cast aside our abortion testimony when we speak of what we not only have seen, but what we’ve experienced. They won’t accept and admit the truth that many women do regret, with every inch of their souls, the dreadful decision of abortion. Nor will they admit that “women’s reproductive rights” really means murder is allowed when we decide a child is too inconvenient. And, they fail to acknowledge that their type of healthcare means that when a woman comes in for an abortion, she’s leaving her child as medical waste to be sold to those who only want the value of a body part with no value whatsoever put on that human life created by God.
Why are they comfortable in the darkness of that thinking? Do they not know where the truth resides? The truth lives in the light—and Jesus is the Light. I’m not Jesus, far from it, but let me use His words here from John 3:19-21a, and let Him tell it like it is:
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light…”
Jesus was not reluctant to be blunt or speak up when He needed to. Sometimes we too, need to speak the truth and expose what happens in the darkness…and not mince words. And then maybe, the light will reach into the dark corners and the world will see and not allow evil to prevail.
Shining The Light 