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In verses 44-46 it says, 44 Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. My favorite thing about this passage is that Jesus recognizes the most important thing is to reflect God’s glory. He also makes it clear that His purpose is to shine the light back to God. If we believe in God we don’t want to stay in the dark, we want to be in the light and in turn we will reflect His light for all to see.
Daily Devotion 
“Right now I am storm-tossed. And what am I going to say? ‘Father, get me out of this’? No, this is why I came in the first place. I’ll say, ‘Father, put your glory on display.'”
These statements from Jesus make me love him even more. I see him being vulnerable. I see him being human. I see him proving to us, that, yes, he is our great high priest who has experienced and felt every single thing that we have and will in the future. He doesn’t run from his adversity. He clings to his father in the midst of it. As Westerners we tend to want to run from adversity, because our lives have become so easy. But how do you get strong if you don’t face it and walk through it? It’d be like telling your trainer you want to get stronger, but every time the weights get pulled out, you run the other way. Yeah, that’s logical. When we train for physical strength or endurance, or when we are getting a college degree (like an “actual” MBA;)), we expect it to be hard. We expect to be challenged. And we expect that it will suck at times and that we just have to push through to reach our goals. If that’s the case in these more tangible areas of life, why would we expect it to be any different in the more esoteric, spiritual area of our lives? Lots of conviction for me today.