...in.the.light

God is Light.

we are born into darkness.

the dark cannot produce light. but the light shines on the darkness.

we run from the light, preferring the pleasures that can be pursued in the darkness.

we enjoy darkness with our finances, with our bodies, with our minds...

confess your faults one to another and pray for each other.

when we allow the light to shine in our darkness...

it exposes the sin and removes the shadows.

our brokenness allows the light to pour in.

seek the light.

"this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be pure and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God." (phil. 1:9-11)

in greek, the word “pure” is “eilikrineiv.”

The second part of the word means judge, like when Jesus said “krineiv not that you be not krineiv”

The first part of the word, "eili" literally means the fullness of the light of the sun[1].

i think that is beautiful.

i think that is terrifying.

i want to live in such a way that all of the splendor of the sun can shine into every area of my life and there is nothing to judge, nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of.

in my finances, in my speech, in my mind, in my heart...

no shadows.

no darkness.

no worries.

just the Light.

[1]from rob bell's sermon, "abound."