The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 John 1:5,
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”
What if God had a shadowy side? What if God had faults, inconsistencies, imperfections in his nature? What if God were moody or gloomy? What would the quality of eternal life be to serve a god like that?
The “antichrists”, the false teachers that John wrote against in this letter we call 1 John brought their false Gnostic teachings from the dualism prevalent in Greek religion. This Greek religion promoted gods who where anything but morally upright or transcendent in character. Xenophanes (c. 570-488 B.C.) commented, “Both Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all things that are shameful and a reproach among mankind: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”
When John proclaims God is light – no darkness whatsoever, it reverberates within me a penetrating excitement to know our God, the only God, is perfect and perfectly consistent in all of his character and nature! As Paul wrote Timothy, “… God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever, Amen.” 1 Timothy 6:15-16.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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