No Darkness At All.

1^st John 1:5-7

“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we 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 His son cleanses us from all sin.”

God is light, I am a slow learner so I have to really break these things down. I love this image though, really can there be any darkness in light? No. What does light do? It exposes, and makes visible all things. On a sunny day you can pick out so many details in all the beauty of creation. Light also makes visible things you want to avoid, like while driving. It makes it so a surgeon can see clearly during surgery. Light is amazing, it is pure energy, and no one can fully understand how it travels. We need it so much that if we don't have it we get depressed.

God is light, He exposes what is in our lives good and bad. He is the source of life, of energy from which everything is sustained. He is our joy without him we are purposeless.

God is light, isn't that amazing to think about.

Now if you walk where the light is, and darkness is the absence of light, it is impossible to walk in darkness and light. It is impossible to walk with God and not see our sin. As we walk with God He exposes sin in our life and we then either choose to accept that truth and confess our sins to God and each other, or reject and ignore that truth hiding it away in darkness.

Now lets look at the attributes of darkness. Darkness hides, obscures, frightens, and confuses. Have you tried to read a book in the dark? Or walk through the woods on a cloudy night. When we are walking in darkness hoping no one can see what's happening, the scary thing is neither can we. It is dangerous because for all you know you may be about to walk off a cliff. So it is when we try to hide our sins, to pretend everything is fine. When we hide from God and pull away from Him because of sin, we pull away from the only One Who can help us see a way out. We hide it from our brothers and sisters, which not only weakens us but them. But as we bring things to the light we “Have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all our sin.”

And we find encouragement in each others struggles knowing we aren't alone.

Application

Confess sin before God and when appropriate man.

How?

I make myself available to talk with any of you if you need to talk or pray. And I also give Team Guatemala girls permission to ask me what's really going on if I seem down, and I have to answer them truthfully.