WALKING IN THE LIGHT. Light symbolizes what is good, pure, transparent, and holy. Darkness on the other hand represents sin and evil. The Scripture says, “God is light”. This means that He is an embodiment of absolute purity and perfect holiness. “Walk”, also connotes our attitude, actions, behaviour or conduct. To walk in the light, therefore, means that our character, life-style, and conduct must be straightforward, transparent, holy, pure and Christ-like. The unregenerate who does not know the Lord lives his life in disobedience and sin, and the word of God describes him as walking contrary to God, in “lasciviousness, lust… and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4: 3). The backslider too, like the unregenerate sinner, has left the path of righteousness to walk in the way of darkness. This ungodly character will lead the sinner/backslider to eternal punishment in hell if he dies in sin (Proverbs 14: 12). When we give our lives to Christ, we strip off the filthy rags of our old life and put on the robe of righteousness and our life is characterized by compassion, humanity, kindness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearance, forgiveness, and above all, charity. With the experience of sanctification, all tendencies towards the works of the flesh are completely uprooted, and the fruit of the Spirit is clearly manifest in our lives. We become further empowered to promptly obey the word of God. No wonder we are able to have fellowship with God and with fellow true believers. To maintain our walk in the light, firstly, we must watch against the influence of unbelieving friends, backsliders and relatives. Secondly, we must seek to be renewed in our spirit by studying, meditating and applying the word of God to every area of our lives. Thirdly, WE MUST BE ANGRY AT SIN. That is, our countenance against anything or person who wants to lure us away from righteousness unto sin must not be inviting. Finally, we must not be ignorant of the devices of the devil to want to pull us down from the faith through false doctrine, false brethren and false teachers.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:41:19 +0000
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