> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://amemamem.com.br/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The True Light - URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/the-true-light/ - Published: 2026-10-18T13:20:42.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-09T01:05:31.000Z - Description: And the life was the light of men. - Author: Airton Humber - Tags: #en, #de-a-verdadeira-luz *“God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.”* ## Let there be light In the beginning, there was darkness over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. Then God said: **“Let there be light.”** And there was light. The light appeared before the Sun, the Moon and the stars. A long time later, John wrote that in the beginning was the Word, that all things were made through him and that in him was life. **And the life was the light of men.** The Word, life and light appear closely connected. And Paul reveals a mystery to us: our life is hidden with Christ in God. Jesus enters human history, according to the traditional biblical chronology, about four thousand years after Adam. But Christ was already there in the beginning, before the creation of all things. --- ## The light of life Jesus declared: **“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”** Notice: not only will see the light, but will have the light of life. John announces that the true light, which came into the world, gives light to every man. But not everyone received it. To those who received it and believed, the right was given to become children of God, born not of human will, but of God. **The light comes from God. It is the Spirit who gives life.** And Paul proclaims: **“Awake, you who sleep, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”** The one who sleeps is called to wake up. The one who is among the dead is called to rise. So it happened when Jesus called the dead to life, when he ordered the paralytic to get up and when he called Matthew to follow him. The Word reaches man in his condition, and life is made manifest. --- ## The light in the heart God, who in the beginning said “Let there be light,” is the same one who makes the light shine in our heart. Paul prays that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened. That is where the transformation of the way we understand, believe and live begins. The Scriptures teach us to guard the heart, because from it flow the springs of life. And Jesus says that the mouth speaks from what the heart is full of. James compares the tongue to the small rudder that steers a great ship. So what is shown in our words also influences the direction of our life. **The light shines in the heart, faith works through love, and the body begins to show what God is doing in us.** That is why Paul invites us to offer our body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, through the transformation by the renewing of the mind. **We are not the source of this light. It is God who works in us both to will and to do.** --- ## You are the light of the world Jesus also declared to the disciples: **“You are the light of the world.”** But where does this light come from? Paul reveals the mystery that was hidden for generations and has now been made manifest: **“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”** We are not the source of the light. Our life is hidden with Christ in God, and it is Christ who lives in us. Jesus added that the light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify the Father. After Pentecost, Peter met a man who could not walk. In the name of Jesus Christ, he ordered him to walk. And, taking him by the hand, he helped him to get up. In the parable of the good Samaritan, we find another manifestation of goodness: a wounded man, almost dead, receives care from someone who comes near and helps him. The light is not shown only in what we understand or proclaim. **It also becomes perceptible in mercy, in kindness and in love.** We were created in Christ Jesus for good works, prepared beforehand by God, so that we would walk in them. --- ## For the glory of God the Father Christ is formed in us by the action of the Spirit. Not for our own glory, but so that the goodness of God may be shown through our life. The grace received produces fruits of love, which can awaken thanksgiving and glorify the Father. **The light shines, the good works become visible, and the glory belongs to God.** --- ## There will be no more night The Scriptures begin with God saying: “Let there be light.” The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the full day. So we too walk by faith, being transformed from glory to glory by the action of the Spirit. The light that lights our first steps also leads us to the hope of a day when there will be no more night. And, in the last pages, we find an extraordinary declaration: **“There will be no more night \[…\] because the Lord God will give them light.”** The city has no need of the Sun or the Moon, because the glory of God lights it, and the Lamb is its lamp. From beginning to end, the light comes from God. And while we walk in this world, the invitation remains: **“While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.”** Because God is light. **And in him there is no darkness at all.**