The Light Study #9

Proverbs 15:30
Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.

• I read this as you should share your faith. But it could also be read as visiting someone with good news (IE: good news sharing) lifts up the spirit. So, it is probably both.

Proverbs 20:27
The human spirit is the lamp of the LORD that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

• OK, this one is definitely about sharing your faith. Your heart is being convicted by the Spirit that is in you.

Ecclesiastes 2:13-14
I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

• Being in the light is better than being in the darkness.

John 11:9-10
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

• If you are in the darkness, you will stumble. If you walk in the light, you will not stumble.

1 John 2:3-11
We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

• If you are in the light, you have to love everyone, including your enemy (but not the devil, it's OK to hate the devil).