Tues., 5/22/18 Devotion (1 Jn. 1:6-7)

Today's encouragement comes from 1 John 1:6 & 7, where the apostle wrote these words:

"If we say that we have fellowship with [God], and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."

Saying does not equal being. How we walk, or live, is what shows the truth about ourselves. Do we eagerly expose our hearts to the light of the gospel; and then seek, by grace through faith in Jesus, to live in accord with it? If so, then we are in the light. If not, then we are in the darkness.

Light-walking has the benefit of honorable fellowship with God’s true saints; and the assurance that sins are forgiven. Nothing on earth can compare with those advantages.

[Puritan quote of the day: "A man cannot love health and poison too; so one cannot love God and sin too.” —Thomas Watson, in, "All Things for Good"]