Here is a follow-up passage on the subject of fellowship. It actually lays some conditions on what is needed for proper fellowship.
When it comes to fellowship with God just saying it doesn’t make it so. In God’s light there is no darkness at all. That means that if we can’t walk in darkness and God’s light at the same time. It reminds me of the passage in one of the prophets that says ‘can two walk together unless they are agreed?’
We all need fellowship. There is no doubt about that. The scriptures are clear. Of course true fellowship can’t happen unless there is likemindedness and our likemindedness must be based on the fact that we are all walking in the light of Christ.
That means we can’t sacrifice holiness for fellowship. We are never going to agree on every fine point. That’s fine – we are all different and see things differently. Outside of the Bible essentials we need to allow each other that liberty.
But when it comes to light walking we must be in agreement. We can’t have one of us dragging the other off the path into dark corners or down dark trails. Darkness is going to be destructive. We can’t have really fellowship with dark walkers.
But, when we obey Christ and fellowship with others walking in the light our lights shine brighter and brighter. All of our lights burning together can light up the darkness.
Some of us live in places of great darkness. Sometimes it seems like our little candles are barely flickering and having nearly no impact. That’s exactly when we need the fellowship with other light walkers. Lets be sure that we keep our lives pure and our lights bright so that together our lights shine brightly for him.
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