This is practical guidance for experiencing our free justification through the cross. There is a continuous outflow from Christ into our hearts. Here is where we find it:
But if we walk in the light
Walking in the light is being honest when God convicts our hearts of sin. We lie to ourselves in many ways: “But this is my personality. But my wife isn’t the girl I thought I was marrying. But look how life has wounded me. But what the Bible says is too demanding. But I can’t change, etc.” This is walking in the darkness. But our hearts start cracking open when we call our sin what God calls it: sin. No softening it.
Walking in the light means we no longer need to look better than we really are. Our needs are too intense, and only God will suffice.
As he is in the light
It isn’t about rules; it’s about God himself. If we are walking in hiddenness, we cannot experience him. He is out there in the light of truth.
We have fellowship with one another
When we start walking in the light before the Lord, we discover one another at a deeper level. We stop playing at church; we enter into fellowship. We find how much we have in common. The sympathy flows back and forth with joy.
And the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin
This is more than a human support group. The sacred blood of Jesus is here. And we bring no sin which his blood cannot cleanse away: “. . . all sin.” That sin weighing most heavily on your conscience – that is the sin Jesus bled for. Step out into the light, as the Holy Spirit nudges you. Then take the next step after that, then the next – a new person walking in the light day by day, continually cleansed. No more hiding. You’re free.
Here is the price we pay: putting our pride away and admitting the truth, moment by moment, as we walk together in the light of the Lord.
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