Bible Snack #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 (1 John 1:7).
 
Light is positioned against dark in the Bible, dark being ignorance, obscurity, destruction and death while light is the Presence of God, all knowing, all power, all life, all liberty. There is a struggle between the soul and the spirit, the soul being the tools we use: emotions, intellect and will, the spirit being who we really are. God is a Spirit and we are made in His image. It is there that the Holy Spirit comes to live as He had no home in us before our new birth. If we are walking in the Light, then we are allowing the spirit to show us life as if through the eyes of God. Therefore, we can have fellowship with each other. That doesn’t mean that others want to have fellowship with us because they don’t necessarily want their dark deeds or dark thoughts brought to the light. When we are walking in the light with God, our thoughts, emotions and will directed toward Him, the Blood of Jesus continually washes us from all sin. When we spend time with our own dark thoughts, we are in obscurity, and when we choose to come back into the light, we must ask for that Blood to wash us again. We do not need to be born again a second time, only washed.