To Be Least

⁵This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷But 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. (1 John 1)

      Recently I mentioned this concept. However, what I did not realize was that God's word talked about it very clearly. What is this that I refer to?
      We as Christians must "walk in the light." What does this mean, how can we as Christians walk in the light? This is a simple analogy that is used to describe whether we are living a life of sin or righteousness.
      The book of Ephesians in chapter five talks about this quite plainly. "⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light ⁹(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) ¹⁰and find out what pleases the Lord. ¹¹Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."
      Every time I go to church or even the public school, I see teenagers who claim to be Christian. However, when I hear this I am shocked. I had never ever guessed they were Christian by simply how they treated me and others every day. They use course language, are filled with lust, lie, and think nothing of it.
      What this passage in 1 John says is this, if we say that we are Christian and that we have fellowship with Him, yet even still we are living a life of blatant sin, we are lying to ourselves and we do not have the truth.
      Whenever I decide to write my next post, I will go into greater detail of how we as Christians can walk in the light. Until then, may the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people.