So what do you do when trust is fractured on a cosmic, eternal level? The answer isn't to embrace self improvement. The answer is response. And that response ultimately came from Jesus. God's answer to fractured trust wasn't to distance Himself from His creation. His answer was incarnation ... coming even nearer to it, not further away.

Pure love stepped directly into the darkness. Not to condemn but to rescue, restore, and redeem. Notice the relational language in our passage. Light has come. People choose darkness because the Light exposes. This isn't about intellectual rejection, it's about a fear of being seen.

Jesus doesn't force the light or sharpen His argumentation and apologetic skills (as is so popular today on social media and with talking heads). He simply offers it. Coming into the light from our chosen and inherited place of darkness is an act of trust ... restorative trust. It is believing His love is greater than our shame.

Walking in "The Way" means choosing honesty over hiding. It means responding to His love, not striving in our own power to earn His approval. It means repentance.

Salvation isn't earned by keeping all the rules. It's received through faith, repentance, and mutually restored trust.

We have all sinned according to Romans 3:23. We have been given an invitation to come into the Light from the darkness that pervades our souls both by nature and by choice. Sometimes, even after "crossing over" to the light, the darkness somehow still feels safe and appealing while being seen is terrifyingly vulnerable.

Where do you find yourself resisting the light? What would change if you believed God’s love truly meets you where you are ... all the time, not just once?