May 5th, 2026
Light
5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
This week I have been thinking a lot about light. Not for spiritual reasons, but because my wife really likes the coziness of a warm light and dislikes the harshness of a cool light. I can’t blame her, the warm light feels like candlelight and fireside, while the cool light feels like an office or a hospital. One light isn’t better than the other, but we all have our preferences.
Yet light is essential to a living space as well as a work space. It’s difficult to read in the dark, and nobody wants their surgeon to work in the dark. But light also reveals things that we don’t wish to see. Shine a light in a dark corner of your garage, and you may find some spiders or centipedes or turn on a bedroom light of your college-aged grandson and see his laundry all over the room. Light reveals things.
As we walk through this life, we do well to walk in the light of God — in the light of God’s Word. The psalmist reminds us that God’s word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Ps 119:105). We need light to safely traverse this life. There will be times when we wander off the way God intended us to walk, and we will depend on His Word to guide us back to the narrow way. We will hurt one another and wish to hide our selfishness and sin in the dark, but God’s light reveals all.
God is light. This is wonderful, terrific, and terrifying news for all of us. It means that God will reveal Himself and the Truth. As Jack Nicholson’s character said in A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” And it’s true, we can’t. The truth is that we are messy and our lives are messy. God reveals the worst in us, but He also cleanses us in His light and through the blood of the Son. God is light and in Him there is no darkness. Let us all walk in the light, unafraid of what may be revealed in us with confidence in the God who reveals!
United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried
Pastor
5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
This week I have been thinking a lot about light. Not for spiritual reasons, but because my wife really likes the coziness of a warm light and dislikes the harshness of a cool light. I can’t blame her, the warm light feels like candlelight and fireside, while the cool light feels like an office or a hospital. One light isn’t better than the other, but we all have our preferences.
Yet light is essential to a living space as well as a work space. It’s difficult to read in the dark, and nobody wants their surgeon to work in the dark. But light also reveals things that we don’t wish to see. Shine a light in a dark corner of your garage, and you may find some spiders or centipedes or turn on a bedroom light of your college-aged grandson and see his laundry all over the room. Light reveals things.
As we walk through this life, we do well to walk in the light of God — in the light of God’s Word. The psalmist reminds us that God’s word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Ps 119:105). We need light to safely traverse this life. There will be times when we wander off the way God intended us to walk, and we will depend on His Word to guide us back to the narrow way. We will hurt one another and wish to hide our selfishness and sin in the dark, but God’s light reveals all.
God is light. This is wonderful, terrific, and terrifying news for all of us. It means that God will reveal Himself and the Truth. As Jack Nicholson’s character said in A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth!” And it’s true, we can’t. The truth is that we are messy and our lives are messy. God reveals the worst in us, but He also cleanses us in His light and through the blood of the Son. God is light and in Him there is no darkness. Let us all walk in the light, unafraid of what may be revealed in us with confidence in the God who reveals!
United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried
Pastor
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