Is Jesus In Your Room? Part 1
John 3:1-21
Imagine that you are in your room, the lights are off, and it’s a complete mess. It’s pitch black, and you can’t see anything. You start walking through this messy room in the deepest darkness you can imagine. What’s bound to happen? You’ll trip and fall, bump and bounce, stumble and stub, and crisscross. Nobody can live like this. Most people don’t keep their rooms a complete mess. Most people clean their rooms when they get too messy. But how can you clean a room in the deepest darkest darkness imaginable?
Just to be clear, I’m not talking about a dusky kind of almost-darkness. I’m talking about pitch-blackness. I’m talking about the deepest darkest depths of an inescapable maze-like cave. Have you ever been to the Redwoods or anywhere where you can explore a deep cave? When you go on these cave expeditions, the guides usually take you down to the deepest darkest depths of the cave and then turn off the lights. Now what? You can’t see your hand two inches in front of your face. The only way to describe this type of deep darkness is to close your eyes and try to look at your hand in front of your face. This is the type of darkness I’m referring to. This is the condition of the room you’re standing in and hopelessly trying to clean.
This is also our condition apart from Christ. This is the type of darkness we all live in apart from Christ. This is life without Christ, a deep dark, impossible-to-escape, impossible-to-clean, cave-like room.
Now, with that in mind, what do you usually do when you want to clean your room, but the room is too dark to see the mess? You turn on the lights! You turn on the lights so you can see the mess and clean it up.
This is what the gospel does. This is the power of Christ. He turns on the lights so we can see the mess. He turns on the lights so we can see ourselves for what we really are: a complete mess! He turns on the lights to show us that we are filthy sinners. He is the light! When we are in Him, when we are walking with Him, even when we are not walking with Him, when He is just near, the lights are on and we see our sin.
This is why people hate Jesus. This is why people get offended at the mere mention of Jesus. He is the light, and the light shines the truth on what we really are.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
John 3:19-20
When Jesus is present with us, we are able to see the mess and clean it up. What’s even better is that when Jesus is with us, he is ready and willing to do the heavy lifting. He is there to clean the dirtiest, filthiest, and most unreachable parts of the room, which is the human heart. He does the work, and he has already done the work of sanctification, and he will continue to work until the process is complete.
21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John 3:21
In Love, In Him, Mike
P.s. This is only part one of a series that will span to four or five parts. We are looking at the book of John Chapter three verses 1-21. Thank you for reading.
Sanctification-
A progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and more like Christ in our actual lives.
Grudem, W. A. (2004). Systematic theology: an introduction to biblical doctrine (p. 1253). Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; Zondervan Pub. House.
