The Life-Light was the real thing:
    Every person entering Life
    he brings into Light.
He was in the world,
    the world was there through him,
    and yet the world didn’t even notice.
He came to his own people,
    but they didn’t want him.
But whoever did want him,
    who believed he was who he claimed
    and would do what he said,
He made to be their true selves,
    their child-of-God selves.
These are the God-begotten,
    not blood-begotten,
    not flesh-begotten,
    not sex-begotten. (The Message)

It is ironic that the God who made the world was largely unwanted by that world when He came into it as a Man; and more specifically, that He was rejected by His own prepared people, when He came among them as a male Jew. The picture of unwantedness painted here is stark.

But, this was not true of everyone. There were those who:

”…did want him”

They got to see reality. He brought them ”into Light”. They could now see things as they really are from their new perspective as children of God. They entered ”Life”.

What is on my heart today is to pray for certain people in my orbit, that they will move from not wanting Jesus to wanting Him.

Whenever I hear someone’s conversion story, there is almost invariably a believer (or two, or more) in the wings of that testimony, faithfully praying. Oh that I might be a prayer-er in the wings of some soul’s journey to faith.

PRAYER: Lord, I bring to you ______________ (fill in the blank) and I ask specifically, definitely, that they will want Jesus. Give to them an unquenchable desire to know that truth which sets free.