“If we walk in the light, as He is in the light.” — John 1:7
As He is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as He is whom we call “Our Father,” of whom it is written, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all”? Certainly, this is the model which it set before us, for the Saviour Himself said, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect”; and although we may feel that we can never rival the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it, and never to be satisfied until we attain to it. The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michael Angelo, but still, if he did not have a noble beau ideal before his mind, he would only…
attain to something very mean and ordinary. Butwhat is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light asGod is in the light? We conceive it to import likeness, but not degree. Weare as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as sincerely inthe light, as honestly in the light, though we cannot be there in the samemeasure. I cannot dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence,but I can walk in the light of the sun; and so, though I cannot attain to thatperfection of purity and truth which belongs to the Lord of hosts bynature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord always before me, andstrive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, after conformity to His image.That famous old commentator, John Trapp, says, “We may be in the lightas God is in the light for quality, but not for equality.” We are to have thesame light, and are as truly to have it and walk in it as God does, though,as for equality with God in His holiness and purity, that must be left untilwe cross the Jordan and enter into the perfection of the Most High. Markthat the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound upwith walking in the light.
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