James Light

 

James

Light

Truth is the light that comes down from the Father of Light

Truth is what makes us complete and fruitful

No wonder the world says there is no absolute truth

They are using a flaming torch that flickers

And is held in their hands at a horizontal level

Verses the child of the Heavenly Father who walks in the Heavenly Light

That does not flicker and shines from above

The one who receives the Good and Perfect Gift

Sees more clearly because of the Heavenly Light 

Those who come to the Light are born again through the Word of Truth

They also do not walk alone

If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 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, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:6-7

What light are you walking by?

Is your light flickering?  Is truth relative?

Or, is your light coming down from the Father of Heavenly Light

Where truth is absolute?

Making you perfect and fruitful

 

Light

 

James tells us…

 

Every good and perfect gift is from above,

 coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights

James 1:17

 

Think about light back in the time of James.

 

There were not electric LEDs or

incandescent and florescent lights.

 

Light came from the sun, the moon or a fire.

 

Imagine going out at night when

the moon and sun are not shining.

 

Maybe you are carrying a torch,

the light from the flame is flickering.

 

As you walk down a path,

 things seem to be moving.

 

 Shadows not only change as you walk,

 but the flickering of the flame causes

shadows to appear and disappear.

 

Finding what you are looking for

can be hard with a flaming torch.

 

You are not always sure of what you see.

 

James says our Heavenly Father is Heavenly Light.

 

Compare the light of the sun

with the light of a fiery torch.

 

There is no comparison.

 

 The sun lights up everything from a higher

advantage point and it does not flicker.

 

Where the torch can only be

raised so high and flickers.

 

James says..

      

Don't be deceived, my dear brothers.

Every good and perfect gift is from above.

 James 1:16,17

 

The word perfect is teleios in the Greek…

 

complete (in various applications of labor,

growth, mental and moral character, completeness:

used in the KJV - of full age, man, perfect. Strongs

 

The gift is completeness in your labor, personal

growth, both mental and moral character.

 

The making of a perfect person.

 

That is the Gift from above.

 

Jesus is the perfect example of the perfect gift.

 

Jesus the Perfect Gift came from above

so we might be born again.

 

So His Father might be our Father.

 

The Father wants to give you perfection.

 

Verse 18 tells us how…

 

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,

that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

 

Your birth into the Family of God

comes through the Word of Truth.

 

Truth is the light that comes

down from the Father of Light.

 

Truth is what makes us complete and fruitful.

 

No wonder the world says there is no absolute truth.

 

They are using a flaming torch that flickers and

is held in their hands at a horizontal level.

 

Verses the child of the Heavenly Father,

 who walks in the Heavenly Light that

does not flicker and shines from above.

 

The one who receives the Good and Perfect Gift

sees more clearly because of the Heavenly Light.

 

Those who come to the Light are

born again through the Word of Truth.

 

They also do not walk alone.

 

If we claim to have fellowship with

him yet walk in the darkness,

we lie and do not live by the truth.

 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,

purifies us from all sin.

1 John 1:6-7

 

What light are you walking by?

 

Is your light flickering?

 

 Is truth relative?

 

Or, is your light coming down from the

Father of Heavenly Light where truth is absolute.

 

Making you perfect and fruitful?

 

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

James 1:16-18 NIV

 

16 Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.