Light and Darkness

 1st John 1

5 And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
7 but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.


There's a girl that works at a bank by my old house.  I remember talking to her, because she mentioned she had tried to go to the same school I go to, but couldn't afford it.  I liked seeing her there, because she was a beacon of light in a business environment intensely focused on profits, personal ambition, and developing exterior skills to further careers.  The business world is much less concerned with matters of the heart, the inward sins, desires, and submission to the will of God.

So, I moved out of state for a year but have recently moved back.  I recently saw her, but her eyes reflect a darkness in her soul.  There's no longer joy in her, and the innocence in her eyes seems to have been snatched away from her.  It was quite discouraging seeing the drastic change.

I say these things because Christianity reflects light and darkness more often than we realize.  Though it is quite a vague and somewhat subjective, there is no denying the difference between someone entirely submitted to the will of God and someone who has given up hope in the Savior.

I suppose the specific application is to think about how much light we radiate, how much we reflect the light of Christ in our lives.  If we walk in the light... we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Christ cleanses us from our sins.