You Will Get Splinters

Just a few verses later in John 1:9, it says, “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.” Here’s what John is saying throughout this book: There is a way of life—a way of light, joy, and peace—but we have turned away from it. We’ve rejected the light, loving darkness instead because our deeds are evil. As a result,...