Walking in the Son-shine

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘I must “walk in the light as He is in the light . . .”— not in the light of my own conscience, but in God’s light. If I will walk there, with nothing held back or hidden, then this amazing truth is revealed to me: “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses [me] from all sin” so that God Almighty can see nothing to rebuke in me. On the conscious level it produces a keen, sorrowful knowledge of what sin really is. The love of God working in me causes me to hate, with the Holy Spirit’s hatred for sin, anything that is not in keeping with God’s holiness. To “walk in the light” means that everything that is of the darkness actually drives me closer to the center of the light.’ CHAMBERS

 

Do you still struggle with sin in your life?  Or have you walked in the light for so long that you are no longer tempted and no longer act on temptation?  Does admitting that you continue to sin seem like ‘failure’ as a Christian.  That somehow you should have gotten beyond that hurdle … Does Billy Graham continue to sin?  My guess is, the answer is yes … Does this seem like an odd discourse?  My point is that we must be careful that we don’t live a Pharisaical life … where we preach one thing but secretly live another.  Not wanting to admit that we are not perfect, even if everyone already knows it.

 

What Chambers is saying is that sin should drive us to the light and not away from it.  That rather than view sin as failure we should see that it serves to make us aware of the great salvation that we enjoy … that we are no longer salves to sin, but we are vulnerable to it.  That we need the power of God in our lives to live the way He intended.  That so long as we walk this earth, we will have an attachment to the world and the old nature.  That we should never be comfortable with the fact that we sin, but know that the closer we are to the light, the less darkness will be an influence on us.  That we need Jesus just as much after salvation as before …. And that we are saved by grace though faith and not of works (by works – through works—with works – in our own strength)

 

So Christian – rejoice – rejoice in knowing that God has made a provision for you in Jesus.  That what we celebrated yesterday .. was the first of four of the most remarkable things that this world  ever has or will see – will ever know (1. His Birth, 2. His death, 3. His Resurrection, 4. His Return) … and that we are partakers of this wonderful gift of salvation … Hallelujah … Praise Jehovah .. Thank you Jesus – Mesi Jezi!

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)