Chapter Seventeen
Walk While You Have The Light
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n a discussion with a crowd that had, once again, gathered around Him, Jesus said the following;
“For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have [“to have (hold) in the hand, to hold fast, to own, possess”] the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.” (John 12:35-36/NASU) Right before this, Jesus had given them a hint of how He was to die. To be sure, He would soon be gone from among them, but I also see a warning in this for those of us who walk with Him today (i.e. received Him, possess Him). As I have stressed numerous times already, we too are warned in the New Testament to be careful how we walk, after receiving Christ. In our earlier discussion regarding those who have received Christ and been given the right to become children of God (John 1:12), we saw that having the power to choose does not automatically mean that we will choose what is pleasing to the Lord. The daily battle within every Christian is to determine who will be Lord, Him or us. In the verse right before Luke 11:36 (see chapter fourteen) which spoke of the body being full of light with no dark part in it, Jesus made a seemingly strange warning. He said; “watch out that the light in you is not darkness.” How could the light in us become darkness? The answer is by not walking in obedience to what we have been given eyes to see and ears to hear. To believe in the light while we possess it is to trust and obey for there’s no other way to
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