The Light

Today I was reminded of an old DC Talk song while I was browsing through Facebook. My friend Marco Martinez had posted a Bible verse as his status as follows: 

"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, purifies us from all sin." 1 John 1:7

This is one of my (many) favorite verses in the Bible, and here is the DC Talk song based on this verse:

In the Light:

I keep trying to find a life, on my own, apart from You, I am the king of excuses, I've got one for every selfish thing I do.

What's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior, this only serves to confirm my suspicions that I'm still a man in need of a Saviour.

CHORUS: 

I wanna be in the Light, as You are in the Light, I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens. Oh, Lord be my Light and be my salvation, cause all I want is to be in the Light. All I want is to be in the Light

The disease of self runs through my blood, it's a cancer fatal to my soul. Every attempt on my behalf has failed to bring this sickness under control.

What's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior, this only serves to confirm my suspicions that I'm still a man in need of a Saviour.

Honesty becomes me [There's nothing left to lose] The secrets that did run me [In Your presence are defused] Pride has no position [And riches have no worth] The fame that once did cover me [Has been sentenced to this Earth] Has been sentenced to this Earth

Tell me, what's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior, this only serves to confirm my suspicions that I'm still a man in need of a Saviour.

[There's no other place that I want to be, no other place that I can see, a place to be that's just right. Someday I'm gonna be in the Light. You are in the Light, that's where I need to be, that's right where I need to be]

I love this song because it is, or should be, the desire of every true Christ follower; to live in the Light; to live in the fellowship of Christ.
During this time of the year, as the sun begins to rise earlier, and set later, and there are more hours of sunlight during the day I appreciate the light so much more. During the cold fall and winter months as the light is fading and we have less each day, those few hours become more and more precious.
Do you ever notice how much easier it is to "live" during the light hours of the day as opposed to the dark hours? While your driving, isn't it a much more enjoyable experience during the daylight hours when you can actually see where you are going? Especially when you are driving in unfamiliar territory? And do you ever notice that the same places you drive during the day change and become so different after the sun sets? According to one report,

"the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. have the highest number of fatalities when calculated as a percentage of the amount of people on the road, according to AAA"

The sun is a precious gift from God, it sustains plant and animal life, it powers the weather system, and it allows us to move about freely on the earth without being blinded by darkness. How much more awesome is the one who created that light, and who is the true LIGHT! If the light of the sun can make that much impact on just driving, how much more can the impact of The Light make on every area of our lives.
The Gospel of John talks about the Light this way,

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." John 1:1-5

The Light that we have is  life! The Bible tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and that the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is Life! and that life is the Light which was in the beginning, is in the now, and will be for all eternity.
I want to live in the Light!