God Thoughts February 13
Memorize: I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. Philemon 4,5
Read 1 John 1:3-7 * highlight the word fellowship.
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him, there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out 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, purifies us from all sin.
The phrase "yet walk in the darkness" is the key, to our fellowship. with each other and God. We know sinless perfection is not what the Apostle John is talking about because verse 8 states; "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." Vincent Word Studies defines the phrase walk in as "literally, walk about; indicating the habitual course of the life, outward and inward"
I have an advantage in understanding this verse, that most do not. I have spent more time in dark woods following a flashlight, than most humans. You begin with just a pinprick of light in the distance as you walk towards it, the light grows, branches assault your face, and roots trip you, but you constantly re-calibrate the path towards the light. The dark, branches, wood noises, and roots are all part of walking towards the light, an indication you are moving in the right direction.
You are habitually walking in the darkness, when a branch slaps your face, turn you from the light, and you sit in the darkness. when a root trips you and you stay. Living in the mud, you no longer have fellowship with light. Remember; the quest of fellowship requires lots of gospel, lots of time and lots of safe people.
Are you living in mud? Or rising and struggling towards the light?
Prayer: Jesus, you are the light of the world, more importantly, you are the pinprick of light in my life, that brings me joy and fellowship. Holy Spirit, strengthen my legs to walk towards the light in a dark world. Father, you created the light and darkness, let me trust you when I momentarily lose sight of the Light. Amen
Memorize: I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. Philemon 4,5
Read 1 John 1:3-7 * highlight the word fellowship.
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him, there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out 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, purifies us from all sin.
The phrase "yet walk in the darkness" is the key, to our fellowship. with each other and God. We know sinless perfection is not what the Apostle John is talking about because verse 8 states; "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." Vincent Word Studies defines the phrase walk in as "literally, walk about; indicating the habitual course of the life, outward and inward"
I have an advantage in understanding this verse, that most do not. I have spent more time in dark woods following a flashlight, than most humans. You begin with just a pinprick of light in the distance as you walk towards it, the light grows, branches assault your face, and roots trip you, but you constantly re-calibrate the path towards the light. The dark, branches, wood noises, and roots are all part of walking towards the light, an indication you are moving in the right direction.
You are habitually walking in the darkness, when a branch slaps your face, turn you from the light, and you sit in the darkness. when a root trips you and you stay. Living in the mud, you no longer have fellowship with light. Remember; the quest of fellowship requires lots of gospel, lots of time and lots of safe people.
Are you living in mud? Or rising and struggling towards the light?
Prayer: Jesus, you are the light of the world, more importantly, you are the pinprick of light in my life, that brings me joy and fellowship. Holy Spirit, strengthen my legs to walk towards the light in a dark world. Father, you created the light and darkness, let me trust you when I momentarily lose sight of the Light. Amen
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