EXPERIENCING CHRIST AS LIGHT

The Holy Spirit has been impressing upon me how very important it is to think of each new day as another opportunity to discover God's love and light which makes life an adventure...and to check my conscience, make my confessions, and be cleansed in order to be refreshed.  I praise my wonderful Jesus who is ever Faithful to His own.  I love Him so much the more for His close attention even down to the smallest details in my day.                         ~~ I bless you Yeshua Messiah! ~~

Experiencing Christ as Light

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bible Verses (RcV) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

John 8:12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am
the light of the world; he who follows Me shall by no means
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Christ is the unique light. Apart from Him, there is no light.
The reason so many Christians are in darkness is that they do
not have Christ in an experiential way. Those in the seminaries
may study theology and Christology, but they may not have the
genuine experience of God and of Christ. Therefore, they are
without light.

Many believers insist that the Bible is full of light. This,
of course, is true. But if we do not read the Word in the Lord's
presence, even our reading of the Scriptures will be in darkness.
We shall be like the Pharisees addressed by the Lord Jesus in
John 5:39 and 40: "You search the Scriptures, because you think
that in them you have eternal life, and it is these that testify
concerning Me; and you are not willing to come to Me that you
may have life." The religionists were offended when Christ told
them they were blind (John 9:39- 41). They thought they were in
light because they had the Scriptures in an outward way. But
actually they were blind because they did not have Christ, who
alone is the light of the world. Any place where the Lord Jesus
is not present is under the authority of darkness.

We need to apply this principle to ourselves. Any part of our
being or of our daily life that is without Christ is in darkness.
If we...do not have Christ experientially and in a practical way
in our daily walk, we are in darkness.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible
(RcV) and Words of Ministry, from Witness Lee, Life- study of
Colossians, pp.39-40. Both are published by Living Stream
Ministry, Anaheim, CA.