John 1:5 And the light shined on the darkness, for the darkness has never over-powered it, put it out, or absorbed it, or appropriated it and it is unreceptive to it.

That is incredible, right? I mean, what a sentence! What a sentence for the Lord to put in the hand of an adult, a child, or anyone who wants to read it to help us understand the truth about light and darkness. He is not only talking about the children of darkness or the spirit of darkness, but He is talking about the darkness that is in our own hearts, wherever we have darkness through unrepentant sin or even areas that need inner healing. If it produces darkness (a dark area in our heart), light cannot penetrate because the darkness will not receive it.

This is why we call someone a “babe in Christ.” Even though a person is a mature adult in Christ, as a babe, they have not developed the spiritual discernment to be able to understand truth to some level or another. If they are truly an adult Christian, a mature Christian, much of that darkness has been dealt with by the Spirit of Christ and in its place has been placed revelation, light, truth. So as Christians, we have to understand that we have to overcome sin; we do not just put up with it. We do not just sit back and say, “Well, that is the way I am,” because that is language of darkness. What we need to do is sit down and say, “Okay, I have this bitterness in my heart. I have that bitterness in my heart. I have this injury. I have this unbelief,” Then say to yourself, “I want to overcome it. I want the light out of this darkness so that I can comprehend the highest truths of the Kingdom and start working from that end.”

You cannot manipulate God to do it! You cannot demand Him to do it! You cannot! I just do not even know all the words that I can use, but we cannot do that! What we have to do is humble ourselves and repent of the sin, the judgement, the unbelief, the apathy. Whatever the darkness is in our hearts, we must repent of it and command it to go and seek the Lord for the light of His truth and when His truth can come into an area in our heart that has been prepared for Him in this manner, then you can understand it. You can go into the heights of understanding because you have been prepared for it. The darkness cannot comprehend the light, but the light can sure get rid of the darkness.

John 1:8, 9 & 14 He was not the light Himself, but came, that He might be their witness regarding the light. There it was. The true light, was then, coming into the world, the genuine, perfect, steadfast light that illuminates every person. And the Word Christ became flesh. Human incarnate and tabernacled, and fixed His tent of flesh, lived a while among us and we actually saw His glory, His honor, His majesty. Such glory as an Only Begotten Son receives from His Father, full of grace, favor, loving kindness and truth.

Okay, we understand by these three scriptures, and it is amazing to me, that there probably has not been, outside of Moses, a purer soul in the whole Earth than John the Baptist! And yet, the Bible is telling us that he was not The Light! This man would have been filled with The Light, but He was not The Light. Christ is The Light and if we want something from The Light, such as the illumination of the glories of Heaven to be given, to be an empowerment, to be a guide to us, then we must admit that we can only get the light from Christ. Even as we study His Word, wherever our intellect is speaking louder than Truth, we are not receiving the Light of Christ. Only in humility, only in purity of heart can He give more and more and more of the Light, and right now He is building soldiers of light.

He is going to start out with the implanted seed of light, of life, of truth. But from there you grow until, if you could see inside your being, you would be amazed to see that if you have done everything you should have done, you are light!

To be continued next week…
In Him,
Nita