If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.vv.6-8
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Does anyone else sing the old Newsboys song “Be in the Light”? Well I for sure do every time I read these verses. Well what these verses, as well as the song, are talking about is our sinful nature and choosing to live in our godly nature instead. Living in the light is where everything is seen clearly good and bad stuff. As I write this I’m on a road trip with a friend driving across the country and we prefer to drive in the daylight because driving in the dark causes us to drive slower and be more cautious of animals and other cars and unknown of what we can’t see as ones vision cant see as far as in the daylight. The light reveals things unseen in the darkness, if you think about it most sins take place in the dark or at night (i.e how many people struggle with lust when laying in their bed at night, or bars and strip clubs are usually full at night). How many people, yourself included, live one way during the day and another way during the night? Well that’s what John is calling out here, that believers were claiming fellowship with Jesus who is light yet walking in darkness calling them liars not living in truth. When we walk in darkness we loose fellowship with Christ. Now we all are sinners, even after we are saved, so will walk in darkness at sometime or other, but let’s not be hypocritical and ask God to continue to rid any darkness still in our sinful nature. What areas of darkness are you living in regularly that your causing disunity with Jesus?
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