The Light
“Light” is used to describe many things about our life in God. Following is a list of Scriptures that give us an idea of all that is in the light of God.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13 For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
35 Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.
17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ
9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
14 for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
19 The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.
2 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
3 when his lamp shone upon my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?
6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
13 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
15 Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD.
5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Isaiah 60
19 The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
6 “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,
4 “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.
20 Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.
10 I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.
First John gives a wonderful description of God’s light. It says the following about God’s light and human darkness:
(1) God is light without darkness.
1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
(2) If we say we are walking with Him, but we are living with some darkness or sin in our life, we are wrong about walking 100% with God. In that area of darkness, God’s light is not shining.
1:6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
(3) If we confess our sin, in other words, if we bring our sin into God’s light, then what is in the light becomes purified through the blood of Jesus.
1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
(4) Claiming to be without sin is a deception. We move from glory to glory[1] because there is always sin/darkness that Jesus is always cleansing/healing/converting.
1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
(5) If we confess sin as God reveals it, He forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. It is a mistake that robs us of glory to just expect forgiveness when we confess. God wants to go to all parts of us that produced that sin and cleanse us completely, body/soul/spirit, of all the roots and effects of that sin.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
(6) This is written in the Bible so that we will not sin. This is not to say that we stop sinning by trying really, really hard to be good, but that we know to hand our darkness over to Jesus the minute we feel it stir, while it is still a temptation and before it prompts us to sin.
2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense - Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
(7) Even if we do sin, Jesus is on our side. He does not accuse us – He defends us. Why? Because He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Jesus is on our side. He doesn’t make us jump hoops or scold us when we don’t make it. He is passionate to set us free from the roots of our sin. He is the one who put Himself in our place on the cross, and He continues to stand with us, right in the place where we are, no matter how dark we think or know that place to be.
2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense - Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
(8) Because Jesus is the “exact representation of the Father’s being” (Hebrews 1:3),[2] the Father feels the exact same way about us when we sin as Jesus does. Jesus isn’t speaking to the Father in our defence because the Father is ticked and huffing in a corner, unwilling to acknowledge us. The Father is speaking with Jesus on this topic because He, too, is passionate to move us into greater light. What, then, are they speaking about? What is the best plan for healing us and setting us free? God is so for us that He did not spare His own Son (Romans 8:31).[3] He does not condemn us, and He doesn’t allow anyone else to do so – He had justified us (Romans 8:33-34).[4] Nothing can separate us from the love of God – nothing (Romans 8:38-39).[5]
But I’ve saved the best for last. While Jesus was on earth, He said: “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9:5). Now that He is no longer in the world, who is the light of the world? Jesus said to His disciples: “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). This is who you are in Christ (Ephesians 5:8): “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.” Yes, you have darkness and you sin. Sin lives in your flesh or in the members of your body (Romans 7):
22 … For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
But sin is not who you are (Ephesians 5:8): “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light”. Live according to who you really are.
[1] 2 Corinthians 3:18 “And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
[2] “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”
[3] “What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
[4] “Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”
[5] “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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