1226 「在光明中行」
我们若在光明中行，如同神在光明中，就彼此相交，他儿子耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪。《约翰一书1:7》
把我们仅在生命的意识层面上免于罪，误认为是通过基督十字架的赎罪而完全从罪中得释放，这是一个巨大的错误。没有人完全理解什么是罪，直到他重生。罪是耶稣基督在加略山上面对的。我从罪中的释放的证据，就是我认识我里头的罪的真正本质。一个人要真正认识罪是什么，就需要耶稣基督赎罪的全面工作和深刻触摸，也就是需要祂的绝对完全传递给我们。
圣灵将赎罪之工应用或行在我们深层无意识的领域，也在意识可及的领域。直到我们真正体会到圣灵在我们身上无可比拟的能力时，我们才理解约翰一书 1:7 的含义，那里说：「…祂儿子耶稣的血也洁净我们一切的罪。」这节经文不仅指意识到的罪，也指对罪的深刻理解，那只有在我心中的圣灵才能做到这一点。
我必须「在光明中行，如同祂在光明中。」——不是在我自己良心之光中，而是在神的光中行。如果我愿在光中行，毫无保留或隐藏，那么这个惊人的真理就会向我显明：「…祂儿子耶稣基督的血洗净了我一切的罪」，以至于全能的神在我身上就找不到可责之处。在意识层面上，那产生了对罪真正含义有一种敏锐而悲伤的认识。神的爱在我里面工作，使我以圣灵对罪之恨恶那样恨恶罪，恨恶任何不合神圣洁之事物。「在光明中行」，意味着一切黑暗的事物实际上都驱使我更接近光的中心。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们不是根本上的自由；外在境遇不在我们手中，而是在神的手中，我们唯一的自由是在于我们与神的个人关系。我们不为所处的环境负责，但我们要为允许这些环境如何影响我们而负责；我们可以让它们压倒我们，或让它们改变我们成为神要我们所是的人。《改变像祂的样式》
1226 Walk in the Light
If we walk in the light as He is in the light…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7
To mistake freedom from sin only on the conscious level of our lives for complete deliverance from sin by the atonement through the Cross of Christ is a great error. No one fully knows what sin is until he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced at Calvary. The evidence that I have been delivered from sin is that I know the real nature of sin in me. For a person to really know what sin is requires the full work and deep touch of the atonement of Jesus Christ, that is, the imparting of His absolute perfection.
The Holy Spirit applies or administers the work of the atonement to us in the deep unconscious realm as well as in the conscious realm. And it is not until we truly perceive the unrivaled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7 , which says, “…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” This verse does not refer only to conscious sin, but also to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Spirit in me can accomplish.
I must “walk in the light as He is in the light…”— not in the light of my own conscience, but in God’s light. If I will walk there, with nothing held back or hidden, then this amazing truth is revealed to me: “…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses [me] from all sin” so that God Almighty can see nothing to rebuke in me. On the conscious level it produces a keen, sorrowful knowledge of what sin really is. The love of God working in me causes me to hate, with the Holy Spirit’s hatred for sin, anything that is not in keeping with God’s holiness. To “walk in the light” means that everything that is of the darkness actually drives me closer to the center of the light.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not fundamentally free; external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God’s hands, the one thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us, or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be. Conformed to His Image, 354 L