God is Light

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice 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 Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. – 1 John 1.5-7

There is no greater contrast than light and darkness. Light and darkness are not compatible. Where there is light, any light, there cannot be total darkness. I have been in caves a couple of times where they turn out all the lights. When they do you can’t see anything, even your hand in front of your face.

It is this kind of darkness that consumed the world because of sin. ‘The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin…’ as the song goes. The darkness of the world so is bad that those who walk in it don’t even know what causes them to stumble. Man’s feeble attempts at lighting his own way always fail. The dark is just to dark. Man’s attempts at light cannot light the way. Those attempts at best give a temporary light that only gives the dimmest of light.

But God’s light always drives out darkness. In Christ there is no darkness at all. The Light of the world in Jesus.

Sadly man loves darkness more than He loves light. So man rejects the Light and continues to stumble. The stumbling can only result in disaster..

God shines His light through His word and through His people. He is the only answer to darkness.