Light in the LORD

"O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD."

Isaiah 2:5

In the beginning God said, "Let there be light!" and there was light.  Before the sun, moon and stars were created, God spoke light into existence.  In God is light and no darkness at all.  Jesus Christ is the Light of the World and the darkness could not comprehend it.  The apostle John wrote of Jesus in John 1:9, "That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world."  Even as the sun shines over all the earth, Jesus Christ supplies salvation and eternal life to all who will believe.

The exhortation to walk in the light of the LORD from the Old Testament is seen in the new as well.  The illuminating light of the Law of Moses was a shadow compared to the light Jesus has provided through the Gospel of grace.  Like the moon is only able to reflect the glory of the sun's brightness upon the earth, the Law reflects the righteousness and wisdom of the glorious God who put on human flesh and walked among us.  God's word is compared as a light to our feet and a light for our paths that leads us to Jesus who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.  To walk in God's light is to walk in His ways, to abide in His presence and to do His will.

In another epistle John wrote in 1 John 1:5-7:  "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and 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 Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."  It is amazing through faith in Jesus we can have fellowship with God, and the Greek word (koinania) for fellowship is described in the Strong's Concordance as, "partnership, participation, communicate, communion and distribution."  Having fellowship with God and walking in the light go together, and this is the one who practices the truth:  the one who hears what Jesus says and does it.

Having been born again by faith in Jesus, the source of light indwells us in the person of the Holy Spirit.  Paul declared to believers in Ephesians 5:8-10, "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), ¹⁰ finding out what is acceptable to the Lord."  In our unregenerate state dead in sins we were not only walking in darkness, but were once darkness.  See the transformation Jesus has wrought by grace:  "now you are light in the Lord."  We have come into the light and our sins have been exposed, repented of and forgiven.  Because of our position granted us by our loving Father in heaven, we are called to walk as children of light as we find out and do what is acceptable to the LORD.

Praise the LORD for the riches of God's goodness, forgiveness and that fellowship with God is not only possible but assured by the Light of the World, Jesus Christ.  Since now we are light in the LORD, let us walk as children of light in all goodness, righteousness and truth.  The Old Testament saints could only walk in the light of the LORD, and we are light in the LORD having been made one with Christ!  Let the light of Jesus Christ shine through you, believer, for you are now light in the LORD.