Isn't 'Jesus', the name given to 'the Word'?
Isn't it true that when Jesus walked among men, quite literally, the Word walked among men?
Isn't 'the Word' also called 'the Truth'.
Isn't Jesus 'the Truth'?
And isn't the Spirit of Jesus (i.e. Jesus = the Word or the Truth), the Spirit of Truth?
I was created in the same Word with Jesus, the prophets and the other saints. We are the sheep Jesus talked about and were created to be God on earth and speak for him.
So you're right about us being the truth and the life. We are the created light energy that was used to create all the images of God's creation and form the atoms with.