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Bible says That God is light and book of John says in the chapter 1:4, "In him was Life; and the life was the light of men".
The Scriptures says in 1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The answer of this would be that God is Truth and if we see verse 6 it says “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth".
God is always faithful, and if we look in the past, we'll find that he has been with us.
1 Thessalonians 5:5” Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”
He is guiding us, fighting for us, He is Always our light as he directed our feets not to turn on the way of Darkness Even though when we were broken, He holds us with his mighty hands.
Faith and strength, he has been working in our lives in so many ways even when we don't realize it!
Every year we celebrate New Year, Birthdays , Anniversaries why we call this a “New” or “Happy”, Because This word creates excitement of Looking and Hoping the New Things which we have not seen. Its Like taking off your old clothes, old sadness, old sufferings clothes of the past year and Wear New clothes of new hopes.
The word New plays a very important role in our lives.
Whether we talk about New clothes,new house,new car,new job etc.Whenever we talked about New, it gives excitement. We started feeling good and happy,Isn't it true?.
In other words, God is light means that God is the source and measure of all that is true.
Another way to put it would be that nothing is truly understood until it is understood in the light of God.
And that is possible only through the fear of God,it is written the beginning of Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge(proverb 1:7).
The Scriptures says,in Genesis 1:3-4 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Imagine when God created light how much happy he was when he saw that light.
That was the very first record of the word “Divide” and that was from the darkness.
But that division God has done for good purpose and he was Happy for that.
The same way we feel happy and enjoy that New as we all are his creation.
But the word “Divide” now has taken us in wrong directions, towards darkness.
There are too much divisions to reach God. Why?
This Divisions of paths reaching or reconciling with God is the example of our Evil and sinful thinking which divided Christianity into so many different Denominations and believers ministries.
In the beginning when God has Seen the Earth, there was darkness, and he don't like that darkness, that's why he divides it in light and darkness.
God hates darkness, but we like darkness, we don't want that our evil works of darkness ever comes in light.
We need to see what the word of God says in 1 Chronicles 16:12,“ Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth;”.
If We Look into the past God was there in all our ups and downs, he was our guiding light in all our work of hands and in our ways, when we suffered his words were our hope and strength.
God was a pole of light in front of Israelites when they were in wilderness.
He released them from the bondage.
We can see and compare our lives, that How God gave us courage, strength and Hope to stand still in all the circumstances in our lives.
Every day every moment he has done miracles and wonders in our lives.
In him there is a New beginning, there will be great and amazing Blessings for us, for me and everybody, his plans are to Prosper us and to release us from the bondage of darkness.
Through His Son Jesus we have eternal life,Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” isn't it great and marvelous things which God has done for us that through His sons blood we all should be cleaned and present in a New form in front him , acceptable.
Our lives are no longer worldly; they are now spiritual.
Our “death” is that of the old sin nature which was nailed to the cross with Christ.It was buried with Him, and just as He was raised up by the Father, so are we raised up to “walk in newness of life,and this a marvelous work.
Bible says in Isaiah 43:18-19 “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
It's his promise to his children that “I will do a New Thing shall spring forth and I will make the way in wilderness.
The Wilderness of our lives, the way we are living, he said clearly do not consider the former things as they are past now.
So in our lives we all should look forward keep the word of God with us and he will show us mighty things and things Wich are unimaginable, that no eyes has seen no ear has heard those are the things which he kept for the people who love him, obey him.
We did not inherit the new nature, nor did we decide to recreate ourselves anew, nor did God simply clean up our old nature; he created something entirely fresh and unique.
The new creation is completely new, brought about from nothing, just as the whole universe was created by God from nothing.
We need to be thankful to God as the scriptures says in 1 Chronicles 16:8 “Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.”
The Former things, the Past or the old things have passed away.
The Past or former refers to everything that is part of our old nature, pride, love of sin, reliance on works, and our former opinions, habits and passions.
Most significantly, what we loved and passionate about has passed away, Self Love ,self-righteousness, self-promotion, and self-justification. The new creature looks outwardly toward Christ instead of inwardly.
Along with the old passing away, The new light, New Day, New Creation has come to us and as New Enter the Old and former dead things are started replacing with new things, which is full of life and the glory of God.
God wants to divide again that Light from the darkness which is in us.
The word light because it promises that the truth of God is a truth full of joy and hope.
Once we start walking in his light, his guidance, our purposes, feelings, desires, hopes and understandings, opinions are fresh, New and different.
Now We see the world differently in a New Perspective.
As in Romans 13:11-12 “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light.”
There are enough Blessings given by God to his people if we start reading it our soul will be thrilled.
Jabez Prayed to God in 1 Chronicles 4:10 “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.”
Yes, we need to be thankful to God,For this New Creation ,we should make known his marvelous works among the people which he has done for us we should pray him with wholeheartedly,and he will listen to our prayers the way he listened Jabez prayer and pros poured him the same way he prospour us and increase our borders.
In Jeremiah 29:11-12 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end;
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.”
Yes, that's his promises and his expectations from us that we should come to him humbly and put forth our prayers, requests as he knows our thoughts, our needs and requirements.
What a Great blessing from him if we look onto Psalms 65:10-11 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatnness.
The Light and Wine of Life of His Son Jesus “Yahshua” flows in us to make us fruit bearing branches as “Yahshua” Jesus is a Fig tree and We are his Branches.
A Beautiful verse from the book of Jermiah which says Jeremiah 17:8 “For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
In this present times, we are his children of light, our mission is to show the light of his words on the wicked world of darkness and to save souls.
Remember in these Last days we are the Children of light and are on a mission which is “Mission impossible”, but through the light and Armour of his word we will make this “Mission Possible”, to bring God's Sheep's again in his Flocks.
The true light is already shining,
1 John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
What is this darkness that is passing away, if we see verse 17 it says 1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Walking in darkness means being controlled by desires for this world instead of desires for God.
But walking in the light is confessing known sin.
Walking in the light does not mean perfection, Walking in the light means seeing things the way God sees them and responding the way he does.
If anyone says that walking in the light means perfection, in that case there would be no need for cleansing, but if we against claiming to be sinless while we walk in the light.
We don't just walk in the light but run in that light as Paul says “Run in such a way to obtain the prize,(1 Corinthian 9:24)”.
Jesus said While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them(John 12:36).
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