Walk While You Have the Light

“So Jesus said to them, ‘The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.’

“When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

“’Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,

    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’

“Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

“’He has blinded their eyes

    and hardened their heart,

lest they see with their eyes,

    and understand with their heart, and turn,

    and I would heal them.’” (John 12:35-40 ESV)

What is the message here for us today? For the Jews of that time period, they had Jesus with them only a little while longer and then he was to be put to death on a cross to die for our sins. For us today we have the Word of God in written form and we have the truth of the gospel that some people are still speaking, and we have Jesus Christ, in the person of the Holy Spirit, living within those who are his by faith in him, some of whom are bringing us the truth of the gospel, which is the light among us.

But we are presently moving closer and closer to the rule of the beast (of Revelation 13) when the truth of God’s word will be done away with, and the Lord’s messengers will be put to death for their testimonies for him, and when we who may still be on the earth will have to decide either to follow Jesus Christ with our lives, to the death, or to worship the beast, instead. So while we still have the light of Christ and of his gospel among us, we need to be those who are walking in that light in walks of obedience to our Lord.

Those who are presently rejecting the light of Christ and of the truth of his gospel message are those who are still in the darkness (in sin), and sin has overtaken them and taken them captive to do its will. And many are them who make professions of faith in Jesus Christ, too, but they have not bowed the knee to God to do his will, for they are still the lords of their own lives determining their own course, doing what their evil hearts desire. Even though many have heard the truth, they have chosen their sins, instead.

So, while we still have the light, we must walk in that light in walks of submission to Jesus as Lord, in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we refuse the light, and we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience, we have the hope of eternal life with God.

The problem is that many are believing a false gospel message which is telling them that a mere profession of faith in Jesus Christ is all that is required of them, and then, by God’s grace, they are now saved and on their way to heaven, end of story. And so they are not coming into the light, but they are remaining in the darkness. But if we walk in darkness (in sin) we will die in our sins, and we will not inherit eternal life with God. And your life could be snatched away at any moment and you end up in hell, not heaven.

What grieves me terribly about this whole thing is how so many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are rejecting the truth of the gospel (the light) and they are embracing a diluted half-truth (lie) gospel, instead, because it does not require death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands. And even though some or many of them have heard the truth, they are rejecting the truth in favor of the lies. And so when they die they are not going to heaven, as they had hoped, but they will spend eternity in hell.

For they have put their hands over their eyes so that they cannot see, and they have put their hands over their ears to stop them up so that they cannot hear, because they want to go their own way and not the way of the Lord. And so the Lord lets them go and he hands them over to do whatever their evil hearts desire (Romans 1:18-32). He allows for their eyes to be blinded and their ears deaf to the truth which could save them from their bondage to sin and give them eternal life with God. But it is their choice.

So, whatever show they were putting on for the benefit of others, to make others think that they were in a right relationship with the Lord, will be over, and the masquerade will be revealed for what it was/is. The dream world that they were living in, which was ruled by the flesh, will be exposed for what it was/is, and if they do not repent and turn to follow Jesus with their lives, they will die in their sins. And so this is a call to wake up from your slumber if you are still walking in sin, and now obey the Lord with your life.

For not one of us knows if we have tomorrow or even the rest of today.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Wake Up!  

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Based off Ephesians 5:1-21; Revelation 3:1-6

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what 

He says to you. 

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says. 

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness; 

Come into the light of love.

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and 

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come 

And free you from within.

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