Children of Light Walk in the Light to have the Fruit of the Light Expressing God

We believers in Christ were once darkness but are now light in the Lord, and we need to walk as children of light, one with the Lord, having the fruit of the light; we today walk not according to right and wrong but in love and light to express God, our Father. Amen!

What a wonderful spiritual future we have! We are not only Christians who do our best to fulfill our God’s requirements; we are children of God, even light in the Lord.

We are those who are daily learning to turn our heart to the Lord so that we may have an unveiled face to behold and reflect Him like a mirror. Amen!

We human beings were created in the image of God and according to His likeness, and it is our responsibility and privilege to spend time with God and be infused with God so that we may shine forth God.

We are not here to live our own lives and do our own things, nor are we here to improve ourselves or do things for ourselves.

Our human life is fulfilled and we have a meaning when we behold God and reflect Him.

The meaning of our human life is that we live one with God in all things, reflecting Him and expressing Him in everything we do.

When we are born of our human parents, we have no idea about God and the eternal things.

But when the gospel is preached to us, when the gospel of the glory of God shines on us, we behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Oh, what a glory!

When we see a glimpse of who the Lord Jesus is and are impressed with His person and work, we simply believe into Him.

We are organically joined to Him, and He comes into our spirit as the Spirit to be joined to us in an organic way; now we and the Lord are one spirit.

Our Christian life is a life in this organic union with the Lord. It is a life of continually beholding the Lord’s face in our spirit.

Many times, however, our spiritual face is veiled and we cannot clearly see the Lord in our spirit. So we need to turn our heart to the Lord.

Whenever the heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

On the one hand, we take the initiative to turn our heart to the Lord; on the other hand, the Lord draws us to Himself and He turns our heart to Him.

We simply need to initiate this process, and the Lord will do it in us.

As we turn our heart to Him, we are unveiled and we can behold Him face to face.

Oh, when we behold the Lord in our spirit, we are infused with Him! How wonderful! He infuses us with what He is, and without us even realizing it, we radiate forth God, for His shining is infused into us and shines through us!

This is the Christian life – a life under the Lord’s shining, a life shining forth God!

We are now Light in the Lord, and we Walk as Children of Light to have the Fruit of Light

Before we believed into the Lord by being shined on Him, we were in darkness, and we were even darkness itself.

But praise the Lord, one day He shined on us and illumined us, and we received Him into us as the light.

Now we are not only in the light but we are light in the Lord, and we walk as children of light to have the fruit of the light (Eph. 5:8-9).

We were once darkness itself but now we are children of light, even light itself (Matt. 5:14).

God is light, and Satan is darkness; light is God, and darkness is Satan.

We were one with Satan and therefore we were darkness, but now we are one with God, and we are light in the Lord. Hallelujah!

Our daily living today is in the light, for we are children of light having the fruit of light.

As God is light, so we as children of God are children of light (1 John 1:5; Eph. 5:8; John 12:36). Amen!

We are not just children of light but are light itself, for we are one with God in the Lord! Hallelujah!

Now that we are light in the Lord, we need to walk in the light.

As we walk in the light, the Lord shines on us and exposes anything of darkness in our being and in our living.

As He shines and exposes anything that does not match Him, we confess our sins, and our fellowship with Him is restored; the result is that we receive more light, more life, and more fellowship of life (1 John 1:7-9).

As we walk in the light, we will have the fruit of the light.

The fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth (Eph. 5:9).

This doesn’t mean that we are trying our best to be good people, righteous people, and people who speak the truth.

Rather, goodness and righteousness and truth refer to the Triune God.

Goodness denotes God the Father, for the only one who is good is God Himself (Matt. 19:17).

Righteousness denotes God the Son, for Christ came to accomplish God’s purpose according to God’s righteous procedure, and He Himself has become our righteousness (Rom. 5:17-21; 1 Cor. 1:30).

Truth denotes God the Spirit, for He is the Spirit of reality, the Spirit of truth, who guides us into all the reality (John 14:17).

For us to have the fruit of the light as we walk in the light means that we enjoy and experience the Triune God so that He may be expressed through us in all goodness and righteousness and truth. This is so wonderful!

We don’t need to try to do or speak anything; we simply need to walk in the light as children of light, and the Lord will live in us to bear the fruit of the light.

When we walk in the light, we will simply have all goodness and righteousness and truth.

We will express God as goodness, we will live in a righteous way by being one with the Lord, and we will be in reality, speaking the truth and walking by being guided by the Spirit of reality. Amen!

All we need to do is remain in the light, being children of light in reality.

Thank the Lord that God has delivered us out of the satanic darkness into the divine light (Acts 26:18; 1 Pet. 2:9)!

Now we are in the light, and the divine life in the Son operates in us.

The divine life in us shines – it is full of light, and it shines in all the parts of our inner being.

Even though we were delivered out of darkness, there still are some parts of our being in darkness, and the Lord’s life shines in us to expose any darkness.

Thank the Lord that His light shines in the darkness within us and the darkness cannot overcome it (John 1:4-5)!

May we follow the light and by no means walk in darkness (8:12).

When we walk as children of light bearing the fruit of light, we will not live in the darkness of sin (1 John 1:7-8).

Rather, as children of light, we will bear the fruit of the light, which is good in nature, righteous in procedure, and real in expression, and God will be expressed as the reality of our daily walk. Amen!

May this be our reality today in our personal life and in our church life.

May we bear the fruit of light as we walk in the light, expressing God as the reality of our daily walk.

Thank You, Lord, for delivering us out of the satanic darkness and bringing us into the divine light! Hallelujah, we are now children of light walking in the light. Even more, we are now light in the Lord! Wow, Lord, we were once darkness but now are light in the light in the Lord! Amen, Lord, we want to walk in the light as children of light so that we may bear the fruit of the light. Shine in us, Lord, and expose any darkness in our being. May God as light shine in our being to dispel all the darkness and illuminate all the dark parts. We want to walk in the light. We confess our sins under Your shining, and we receive the cleansing of Your precious blood. Hallelujah, the blood of Christ cleanses us from every sin, and we can live in the light and walk in the light as children of light! Praise the Lord, God is light and in Him is no darkness at all! Amen, Lord, thank You for making us light in the Lord. We want to bear the fruit of the light, which is good in nature, righteous in procedure, and real in expression! Amen, Lord, may God be expressed as the reality of our daily walk!

As Children of Light, we Live in Love and Light to Express God in our Daily Living

When some Christians hear that we were in darkness and now we are light in the Lord, and that we have to bear the fruit of the light in all goodness and righteousness and truth, they try to manufacture their own goodness, their own righteousness, and their own version of the truth.

This is not what the Lord intends for us to do.

We simply need to realize we are children of light and walk in the light (1 John 1:7).

We are children of light, and we walk in the light so that we may be one with the Lord and have Him expressed through us.

Collectively, we are the church as the bride of Christ, and we walk not just in reality and grace but in love and light.

God is love and God is light; love is the nature of God’s essence and light is the nature of God’s expression.

Reality is the expression of light, for when God is expressed, He comes to us as truth, reality.

Grace is the expression of God’s love, for when He expresses His love toward us, He comes to us as grace, even full of grace. Amen!

What does it mean for us to walk in the light by living in love and light?

This can be illustrated by our living in the married life; a proper marriage is not merely according to reality and by grace but is in love and in light.

It would be pitiful if a married couple would behave according to right and wrong, with nothing of love and light.

When a husband speaks to his wife, he should not deal with her according to what he thinks is right; rather, he should be with her in love and in light.

When we walk in the light habitually, when we as children of light walk in the light and bear the fruit of the light, we don’t need to think that we should do the right thing and not the wrong thing – we simply live out Christ, and we will be in grace and reality.

But when we do not walk in the light, we consider that we should do what is right and reject what’s wrong; the result is that we do not live out Christ. Oh, Lord Jesus!

When we are in the light, when we’re walking in the light in a habitual way, we are outside of the realm of right and wrong.

We simply walk in the light as children of light, and the Lord is expressed through us in a normal, spontaneous, and organic way.

We don’t need to try to express Christ; He is expressed through us, for we walk in the light, as He is in the light.

We don’t need to try to fellowship with others, for in the light we simply fellowship with God and with one another.

When we’re in the darkness, however, we try to discern, to guess, and to grope for a way to do things.

Whenever we realize we’re trying to discern or guess what we should do, instead of reading the Bible more to find out what the Bible says about that situation, we should simply repent and walk in the light.

As children of light, we should walk in love and light, loving God and living in the light, and we will have His leading, we will sense His presence, and we will express Him.

We may sense that we are about to lose our temper with our spouse; in that moment we don’t need to think about what is the right thing to do but simply remain in the realm of the light.

When we walk in the light, as the Lord Himself is the light, we will not lose our temper, we will not raise our voice, and we will not react in the flesh; we will simply express the Lord.

May the Lord train us to live in this realm, the realm of love and light, so that we may be children of light walking in the light and bearing the fruit of light.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. We want to live in the light and walk in the light, even as You are in the light. Amen, Lord, in the light we can sense Your leading and we can have fellowship with God and with one another. We want to walk in the light today. Save us from living and behaving according to the principle of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Save us from living or speaking according to right and wrong. Oh, Lord Jesus! We want to be prepared as Your bride by living in love and in light today. Hallelujah, we are children of light walking in the light to bear the fruit of the light and have God expressed through us and in us in our daily living! Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us in the light today. Keep us enjoying Your shining, allowing Your shining to reach every part of our inner being, and agreeing with Your light as it exposes any darkness in us. We do not want to remain in darkness. We want to walk in the light and in love so that You may be expressed through us.

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 61, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Christian Life (2024 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 6, The Triune God in Christ Being Life to Us by Shining in Our Hearts.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – Walk in the light, and thou shalt know / That fellowship of love / His Spirit only can bestow, / Who reigns in light above. / Walk in the light, and thou shalt find / Thy heart made truly His; / Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined, / In whom no darkness is. (Hymns #658 stanzas 1-2)
  – God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all! / Oh, how we love within His presence to dwell! / In this light we enjoy a constant cleansing within— / From every sin! / In the light, / We are walking— / Fellowship, / We’re enjoying; / And the blood / Of God’s Son / Is cleansing us from sin. / We confess, / He is faithful / To forgive— / He is righteous. / What a joy! / We are cleansed / From every sin! (Hymns #1197)