Clouds of Sin

“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

Our Lord has promised never to leave us, nor forsake us. This has been a very precious verse in the lives of my wife and me over the years, and we had to often remind ourselves of the truth of it; that being said, it doesn’t mean that we will never withdraw from the Lord. Our text verse tells us that we can fail to “walk in the light” and break fellowship with the Lord as a result of it. Just as the clouds obscure the sunlight, and turn the day into a dark, and dismal day, so can sin obscure the light of God’s presence, and turn our lives into seeming chaos. We all know on a very dark and gloomy day, that the sun is there hiding somewhere behind the clouds; it is still shining, but the clouds have come between us and the brightness of it; and, in the same way, the Son is still there when we have sinned, but the light of His glory has been obscured by sin, and the brightness has been dimmed. When we finally discover that this has happened, we need to get back to the place of fellowship with Him; we need to confess that sin, humbly, and sincerely and the glory of God will shine on us once more. Let’s be sure that we get back to the light, and the fellowship of the Father in Christ, and that we dwell there so that we never stray far away again. Everyone seems to like a bright sunny day much more than the overcast cloudy day; we seem to be in higher spirits when the sun shines brightly.