If we look through this epistle, we will see that John certainly "laid the truth down" in a strong manner when he declared that walking in the light as God is in the light, is a necessity. John was not setting forth an impossibility! He spoke of something that not only is possible for us to do, but also profitable. Some may say that no one can walk in the light as God is in the light, but this is exactly what John received from Jesus. It’s not what John said; this was the message he heard Jesus teach.

Notice in 1 John 2:8; he let us know the darkness is past and the true light now shines. We say this with all kindness: the religious world is full of light, but not the true light. When people think about God being light, they begin to say, “Now we have to make room for us. We’re human beings.” Well, want to make just as much room for "us" as the Bible makes. We have no desire to lift the standard higher than people can live; furthermore, we don’t believe that Jesus lifted the standard higher than people can live---by the grace of God. It is something livable!

Let’s study the statement in the fifth verse of our Scripture text, which reads, “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” In the truest sense, we cannot see God and we cannot see light. We only see objects, which the light causes to appear, but we cannot see light because of its luster. The sun is a reflection, and the moon is only a reflection of the sun. Who can look straight into the sun? The luster of it is too great. In the natural realm, all the light that God has allowed to shine on the earth, is a reflection. What is the sun a reflection of? All light is a reflection of God, the Father of lights.

God is the beginning of light; all light came from Him, and everything He sets in order to be light, is the reflection of Him. Just as the natural sun is a reflection from God, the Father of lights, even so, the spiritual Son, Jesus Christ, is a reflection of the Father. This is why Jesus is called the Light of the world. Nowhere is God ever spoken of as the light of the world. God gave the natural sun, and it gathers light from the Father and reflects it to us, and that light illuminates us.

Jesus Christ was sent as the Father’s Son, and He came to reveal, or reflect, the Father. Jesus is the One who brings spiritual light and reflects the great God (who is a Spirit) to us as mankind. God, speaking to Moses and others, said of Himself, “I Am.” What is God? “I Am that I am.” In other words, He is Light---Unapproachable. No one can approach that Light, but thank God for the Light of the world that came down to reflect, or reveal, the Father to us, so that we, through Him, can get a glimpse of the Father. God has been so minimized, and man has been so lifted up, that people see “popes, priests, preachers," and many other images---as God. We won’t get a good look at God until we look at Him through Jesus Christ; then, it is only through dark glasses, so to speak. (*Grin*), it will take better eyes, a greater mind, a greater man than "this flesh" to look at God face to face---as He really is!