Jesus Light of the World

Once, it so happened that Lord Krishna was standing in front of the mirror decorating himself. He was trying on different crowns on his head and putting on some fine jewelry while his charioteer waited outside with the chariot ready. His charioteer waited and waited and thought to himself – usually, Krishna comes immediately, today he has still not come. So, out of curiosity, he went inside to find out if the program was still on because Krishna was very unpredictable, anytime anything could change. So, the charioteer goes inside and he sees Lord Krishna standing in front of the mirror admiring himself.
He politely asked, “My dear Lord, tell me, why are you dressing up so much today. Where are we going?”
Lord Krishna said, “I am going to meet Duryodhana.”
The charioteer said, “You are dressing up so much to meet Duryodhana?”
Lord Krishna then said, “He cannot see my inside, he can only appreciate my outside. So how I am dressed will impress him because he cannot see my inside.”
Then the charioteer said, “You are going to Duryodhana? You should not go, he should come to you. This I cannot accept.” He continued to say, “This is not fair. Look at your status and look at him! You are the Lord of the world. You should not go, let him come.”
Krishna turned back, looked at him, smiled and said,
“Darkness does not come to light, light has to go to darkness.”
May Deepavali illumine us from within.😊


Refuted:

Who is Lord?
Yahweh is the principal name in the Old Testament by which God reveals himself and is the most sacred, distinctive and incommunicable name of God

A prophesy more than 700-1,000 years before Jesus Christ by Isaiah says that, Jesus' appearance will be disfigured. They will humiliate and beat so much that we can't even recognise him.

Isaiah 52:14
Just as there were many who were appalled at him -- his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness--


This is the same God who said to Samuel when he went to select the next King, as God rejected soul and God choose David, only man looks at the outer appearance, but God looks the heart.

1st Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."


Jesus' Crown:

He could have chosen to be born in palace. He is the King of Kings, but Bible tells us a different kind of crown that was put to him.
According to three of the Gospels, a woven crown of thorns was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus. It was one of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority. 


Putting on fine Jewelry?

 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs” (Matthew 7:6.) 

Jesus is Lord - Excerpts from "One Solitary Life"


One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

Unpredictable?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8

Admiring himself?

Philippians 2:6-11 New Living Translation (NLT)

6 Though he was God,[a]
    he did not think of equality with God
    as something to cling to.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges[b];
    he took the humble position of a slave[c]
    and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,[d]
8     he humbled himself in obedience to God
    and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor
    and gave him the name above all other names,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

Can't see inside?
The heart of man is only evil.

John 14:13
I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,

Lord of the earth?

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV in their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Matthew 5:44  I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

It's not enough to appear something in front of your friend or enemy, but Love them.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us


Jesus, Light of the World:
John 3:19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Ultimately it is not darkness coming to light or light going to darkness. It is God coming to us, we are of the evil heart. No man is pure or holy, so only God is Light and he can save us from the darkness (evil heart).


The Deception

2 Corintians 11;14
New International Version
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.