1226 「在光明中行」
我們若在光明中行，如同神在光明中，就彼此相交，他兒子耶穌的血也洗凈我們一切的罪。《約翰一書1:7》
把我們僅在生命的意識層面上免於罪，誤認為是通過基督十字架的贖罪而完全從罪中得釋放，這是一個巨大的錯誤。沒有人完全理解什麼是罪，直到他重生。罪是耶穌基督在加略山上面對的。我從罪中的釋放的證據，就是我認識我裡頭的罪的真正本質。一個人要真正認識罪是什麼，就需要耶穌基督贖罪的全面工作和深刻觸摸，也就是需要祂的絕對完全傳遞給我們。
聖靈將贖罪之工應用或行在我們深層無意識的領域，也在意識可及的領域。直到我們真正體會到聖靈在我們身上無可比擬的能力時，我們才理解約翰一書 1:7 的含義，那裡說：「…祂兒子耶穌的血也潔凈我們一切的罪。」這節經文不僅指意識到的罪，也指對罪的深刻理解，那只有在我心中的聖靈才能做到這一點。
我必須「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。如果我願在光中行，毫無保留或隱藏，那麼這個驚人的真理就會向我顯明：「…祂兒子耶穌基督的血洗凈了我一切的罪」，以至於全能的神在我身上就找不到可責之處。在意識層面上，那產生了對罪真正含義有一種敏銳而悲傷的認識。神的愛在我裡面工作，使我以聖靈對罪之恨惡那樣恨惡罪，恨惡任何不合神聖潔之事物。「在光明中行」，意味着一切黑暗的事物實際上都驅使我更接近光的中心。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們不是根本上的自由；外在境遇不在我們手中，而是在神的手中，我們唯一的自由是在於我們與神的個人關係。我們不為所處的環境負責，但我們要為允許這些環境如何影響我們而負責；我們可以讓它們壓倒我們，或讓它們改變我們成為神要我們所是的人。《改變像祂的樣式》
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