Light!

John 1:4-5: "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not                        overcome it."

John 8:12: "Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he who follows me shall by no means walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

1 John 1:5: "And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all."

Praise the Lord for this word! He is the light, He Himself is the very light that shines in our being. 

Footnote 4 on 1 John 1:5 opens this wonderful word up: "As light is the nature of God in His expression, so darkness is the nature of Satan in his evil works (1 John 3:8). Thank God that He has delivered us out of the satanic darkness into the divine light (Acts 26:18; 1 Pet 2:9). The divine light is the divine life in the Son operating in us. This light shines in the darkness within us, and the darkness cannot overcome it. When we follow this light, we shall by no means walk in darkness, which according to the context is the darkness of sin."Today this really touched me, to know that the Christ who is in me (Rom 8:10) is the light that shines in the darkness. By nature we were dead in sin, but Christ came as the life giving Spirit to fill us with Himself, to shine Himself into us. Our sinful nature cannot survive in the divine light of our Lord.

1 John 1:7 tells us that we can walk in the light, and 1 John 1:5 tells us that God is light, how wonderful! We can walk in God! We can dwell in God, we can dwell in Light! The Lord is in us as light that shines in us, light that removes the darkness from within our being, and He is the light in which we can walk, light in which we can live.

Lord Jesus! Praise You, You are the light, praise You we can walk in You as the light. We desperately need to experience You in this way, as the indwelling light in our being that we can dwell in. Praise You, You are a mysterious and wonderful God!