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Understanding God’s Purity: Light Without Darkness
In this episode, we explore the purity of God as depicted in One Joh… (visit YouTube for more)
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Some well-known atheists would have you believe that if God exists at all then he’s malevolent, he’s evil. This is not true. As we continue to meditate on the character of God today, we are looking at his purity. One John chapter one, verse five. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaimed to you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
Light is clearly a good thing. We need light to be able to see. We need light to avoid stumbling. But here it’s a metaphor for goodness, for purity. And the fact that God is light without any darkness tells us that he’s pure. He is one thing only in the sense of morality. He is only good. He is never evil.
And this gives us great confidence and reassurance. We know that we don’t have a capricious God who one day will be kind to us and the next day is trying to trip us up or wound us.
We live in a world where we see much evil, and this evil comes from absence of good. It comes from excluding God from our kingdom. It comes from excluding God from creation by saying to him with Adam, we don’t want you. We want to go our way.
And one of our jobs then as Christians, as witnesses to this world, is to bring the light of God and to shine that light into the world, into our communities, especially places that are dark. And what happens when you switch the light on in a room and that light is intense? It banishes immediately all darkness.
That is what God does because that’s who he is. All darkness has to flee away. He is the light that shines goodness into us. He is the light that gives us knowledge of him so that we can live and walk in that light and become more holy, more godly, more like Jesus.
Thank you, God, that you are pure. Thank you, that because of this we can trust you. We know that your intent for us is always for good and for your glory, which too is good. Thank you that you are a good God. Amen.
