Walk in the Light

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 24.

Walk in the Light

Our Lord’s injunction to “walk in the light” is a practical one, and implies activity in His service, in a righteous life. His was and is an active life; on earth He “went about doing good.” Real faith in the Gospel is not a mere passive assent to Gospel truth; it is a “faith that works by love.” Of certain professed believers Jesus asked the pertinent question, “Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and, do not the things which I say?” The psalmist says, “My Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Jesus Christ was the Word made flesh, personified into a living activity such as men could comprehend and imitate, because in Him the Word was carried out to the letter. Therefore “He was the true Light,” and to “walk in the light” is to follow Him. There was no anti-lawism in His walk. He kept His Father’s commandments, the law was in His heart; therefore “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.” By walking in the light, as He was in the light—actively doing His work—His disciples become also “the light of the world.” So the Master says, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”