In January our church held its annual congregational fast. For 21 days we prayed together, fasted together and meditated on 1 John . Here are my thoughts from those times of devotion in 1 John.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

⁷ 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 1 JOHN 1:5-7

MEDITATIONAL THOUGHT:

The blood of Jesus continuously cleanses you as you walk in the light, restoring fellowship with God and others.

MY THOUGHTS:

I am captured by the thought of the blood of Jesus continuously cleansing me as I walk in the light. It is not a one and done application of the blood. It is not that I was once cleansed. It is that I am continually being cleansed by the stream of Christ’s blood that flows into and through my life.

In our morning prayer session one of our staff pastors was relating how she had been meditating on the scripture that declares “The Lord fights our battles” ( Ex 14:14). Our job is to position ourselves be silent and watch what He does. This relates to our Scripture this morning because we get the continuous cleansing only when we position ourselves in the light of God through prayer, worship and the Word of God.

I am struck by the fact that the continuous cleansing is not just forgiveness of my sins; It is also deliverance from my sins.