Have you ever been in a place that is so dark that you cannot see your hand before your face? Whether it is deep within a cavern, or in a pitch black room, the experience is very unsettling in the least and scary if endured for too long. Today the apostle John contrasts the idea of walking in darkness with walking in the light.
One of the first understandings that a person must have to experience full joy by being in fellowship with God is that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. John writes in chapter one verses five and six:
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. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
John's message is very clear, and it was given by Jesus Himself: God is light, not God is a light, but God is light. It is the very essence of God. He has no darkness at all within Him. There is no blemish, no sin, nor fault or error within God. How then can darkness have fellowship with God? It cannot, and therein lies the great difficulty.
Paul the apostle adds these thoughts to this matter. He said in Galatians five verses nineteen through twenty-one:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
If a person is practicing these works of the flesh and walking in darkness, he or she cannot have fellowship with God. As John said, “If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”. In other words, saying we have fellowship with God and practicing works of darkness goes against the very nature of who God is, and those practicing these things with a belief that everything is okay with their relationship with God are deceived.
God desires everyone to have “fellowship” (the Greek word is “koinonia”) with Him. By this “fellowship” a person obtains full joy, and becomes like the light that God is. Darkness must be put away, and there is only one way for that to happen in a person's life. The answer to that dilemma will have to wait until tomorrow.
Until tomorrow...there is more...
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