GOD is light!

 We need to understand that as a Holy, Righteous GOD, our FATHER cannot be in the presence of darkness or evil or sin.

Following on from that, although we are all sinners, we need to repent from our previous ways when we accept Jesus as our Redeemer and become "born again" Christ followers.

This means that we cannot go on living as we did before.  We cannot go on sinning.

Does this mean that we can and will never sin again.  Certainly not!  We have sinful natures and we do given in to that now and again.  We are not perfect.  All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of GOD.  

But what it does mean is that habitual sin must be put aside.  We cannot claim to have fellowship with GOD and be sinning each and every day just as we did before we were born again.

What John is saying here, is that GOD understands our sinful natures and has left repentance and the cleansing of our sin to the perfect blood of Jesus.  This blood purifies us from our sin.

Repentance, however, means to turn away from or to change our minds.  And this growth needs to be taking place daily.

We need to fellowship with other Christ followers.  We need to be in Church worshipping.  We need to be in Bible study groups and most of all we need to be in a living, meaningful relationship with our FATHER and our Saviour in Heaven.  This is done by daily prayer and daily reading of the Word of GOD - our Bibles.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that when I sin, I can fall back on repentance and the blood of Jesus, spent for me to redeem me from the sins that I commit.  FATHER help me not to repeat the same sin over and over.  I pray this humbly in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully GOD blessed today!