1 John 1:5-7

So I was thinking about this passage today. Actually, it was the focus of a sermon I was listening to, so I guess that simply triggered my thinking of it. This is nothing revolutionary, but I was thinking about this idea of darkness. If you're in darkness, it's hard for you to see what's around you. If you are in the state of saying that you have fellowship with God while you are walking in the darkness, how can you switch to walking in the light? You're in the darkness; you're clouded and oblivious to your current state. Your very state makes it difficult for you to switch to walking in the light.

These two statements cannot be both true. You can't be both walking in the darkness and having fellowship with God. That just doesn't make sense, yet so many people in the world live like that. They say that they're religious or that they're buddies with God, but they continue to live and grow in their sin. If you recall, God is light. Light doesn't exist with darkness, so you can't exist with darkness and have fellowship with God since God is light.

What's also interesting is that for the case when a person walks in the light, it doesn't specify that this person says he or she is walking with God. I guess walking in the light doesn't need specification of having fellowship with God. Walking in the light is the same as having fellowship with God, or walking in the light means you are in fact also having fellowship with God.