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Walking in Light
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light …
1 John 1:1-10
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that
ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship
is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
word is not in us.
1 John 1:7
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
“As he is in the light”! Can we ever attain to this? Will we ever be
able to walk as clearly in the light as He is whom we call “Our Father,”
of whom it is written, “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all”
(verse 5)? Certainly this is the model that is set before us, for the
Savior Himself said, “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly
Father is perfect”; and although we may feel that we can never rival
the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it and not be satisfied
until we attain to it. The youthful artist as he grasps his newly sharpened
pencil can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michelangelo; but still, if he
did not have a noble ideal before his mind, he would only attain to something
very mean and ordinary.
But what is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light
as God is in the light? We conceive it to convey likeness but not degree.
We are as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as
sincerely in the light, as honestly in the light, although we cannot be
there in the same measure. I cannot dwell in the sun—it is too bright a
place for my residence, but I can walk in the light of the sun; and so,
though I cannot attain to that perfection of purity and truth that belongs
to the Lord of hosts by nature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord
always before me and strive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, to conform
to His image.
The famous old commentator John Trapp says, “We may be in the light as God is
in the light for quality, but not for equality.” We are to have the same light
and are as truly to have it and walk in it as God does, though as for equality
with God in His holiness and purity, that must be left until we cross the Jordan
and enter into the perfection of the Most High. Notice how the blessings of sacred
fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up with walking in the light.
Matthew 5:48
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
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Walking in Light If we walk in the light, as he is in the light …
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