This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: 

God is light, 

and there is absolutely no darkness in him.

1 John 1:5 CSB

God is light.

Theos; God

Phos; light

eimi; I am, I exist

Our God is not a source of light, he IS light.

This literally reads a bit like Yoda would say it:

"God Light I Am"

He is not a created source of light like the sun, He IS light.

John says it anyway, that there is no darkness in Him. It simply cannot be.

Yet in this world there is both.

Light and darkness.

We see it every minute of every day of every year in our world the work and actions of darkness. 

People's choices. 

And it's in me. 

My thoughts, my words, my actions, my choices, my mind, my heart, my being...no matter how hard I might try, there is darkness there. 

An expression of Grace is that Light just doesn't arrive in all it's power and glory because I would be consumed by it, obliterated by it. 

Pure light, Light I Am, would be the end of me.

And yet Light I Am lives within, wanting to be let in further.

Light I Am wants to commune with me.

Light I Am wants to quietly, gently, push out the darkness in me, in us, and through us push back the darkness in the world.

This is our God.

Light

I Am

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