3/28/19

I John 1:5

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. 

This is one of, if not the purest statements in Scripture describing who God is.  “He is light”.  Without any contradiction light then, now, and forever.  The purity of the light that is God is as He is, infinite.  “In Him is no darkness at all.”  That is, if there is any doubt, no, none “at all.”

That absolutely certain fact has an absolutely necessary application.  “If” we say we know Him with any measure of intimacy, “have fellowship”, something, anything in common, and practice deeds of darkness what can be said?  “We lie.”  No quibbling, no searching for a kind qualifier, just plain lie because we are practical liars.  “We do not practice the truth”.

The Puritans in the 17^th century were want to qualify atheists.  There was the confessional atheist and the practical atheist.  John tells us both kinds of liars, confessional and practical, are those who claim to be God’s fellows and live as practical haters of God’s holiness.

“God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”  This is our confession.  This is our hope.  This is our salvation.  All that we have or can hope for is locked in these words.

Revelation 4:8

⁸ And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
    who was and is and is to come!