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If you happen to think some of the content of Elohim’s World is a little wonky, please consider this. You are a fisherman by trade from a rural village. At a point in your life you hear of a person who could possibly, possibly be the Messiah that has been part of your religion, culture, history, mindset all of your life: (please take these four elements/factors and bring them all into a nexus focus of your own life before proceeding). Now you know in fact that He is the One that has been expected; let’s read how John states it in his 1st epistle to the brethren which also includes us:
1 John 1:1-3 (ESV)
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—
2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
These are basic tenants of the gospel, the good news that God is real, He exists and is present, and that He has even manifested Himself on earth in physical form to John and others, and that this in fact is very good news, news worth spreading and even dying for in efforts to share, the big picture. Now lets hone in to a specific moment in this big picture where this fisherman along with his buddies is hanging out with God in the flesh and God says the following about Himself –
“God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.”
The full statement as recorded is:
1 John 1:5 (ESV)
5 This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.
Now to me (sorry for the subjectivity) this is as metaphysical as anyone, even God can get! Light, darkness? We, they, are lifted out of the mundane and are propelled to seeing God in literal black and white, but with all the nuances of each crowding in the background clamoring for recognition of implication and application. Imagine the impact these words had at the time they were spoken to fix an impression and to carry over into the rest of what John continued on to write years later as he wrote this letter.
1 John 1:6-7 (ESV)
6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
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 cleanses us from all sin.
Fellowship/relationship, our being (we walk), our practice(s) – of the truth, our being in this state of light that is God and the corresponding fellowship we experience with each other, and we are confronted with the final metaphysical reality as John presents it that in this state of light we experience His blood cleansing us from our human non-God exposed condition, His blood being another metaphysical reality that transcends all mere physical possibilities.
Part II: part I comes from my daily scripture reading and meditation/rhema. Part II is my daily devotional that is generated by the original date it was assigned 120 years ago by its author. Isn’t it interesting how they mesh.
Evening Verse
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1
“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation”; the soul is assured of it, and therefore declares it boldly. Into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation; where there is not enough light to reveal our own darkness and to make us long for the Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. After conversion our God is our joy, comfort, guide, teacher, and in every sense our light: He is light within, light around, light reflected from us, and light to be revealed to us. Note, it is not said merely that the Lord gives light, but that He is light; nor that He gives salvation, but that He is salvation; he, then, who by faith has laid hold upon God, has all covenant blessings in his possession. This being made sure as a fact, the argument drawn from it is put in the form of a question, “Whom shall I fear?” A question which is its own answer. The powers of darkness are not to be feared, for the Lord, our light, destroys them; and the damnation of hell is not to be dreaded by us, for the Lord is our salvation. This is a very different challenge from that of boastful Goliath, for it rests, not upon the conceited vigour of an arm of flesh, but upon the real power of the omnipotent I AM. “The Lord is the strength of my life.” Here is a third glowing epithet, to show that the writer’s hope was fastened with a threefold cord which could not be broken. We may well accumulate terms of praise where the Lord lavishes deeds of grace. Our life derives all its strength from God; and if He deigns to make us strong, we cannot be weakened by all the machinations of the adversary. “Of whom shall I be afraid?” The bold question looks into the future as well as the present. “If God be for us,” who can be against us, either now or in time to come?
Morning and Evening.
please, be blessed.
