Greetings,

What a wonderful time we had together in worship and in studying the word of God together. I am so blessed to be able to share my heart with you on a weekly bases and to show you the things that God is teaching me. I know on Sunday that there was a high level of emotions that God ordained for us. Some might think that emotions are not from the Holy Spirit but that It can be a great tool used by the Spirit.  I believe this was evident by the wonderful response to the God’s call to live in light. The emotion that was shown came from a broken heart that sees people chose to stay in the darkness and not receive the joy of the Lord. There is a verse that says, “the joy of the Lord is my strength”, so when God see people living in defeat and without joy, we see a broken heart of God and that came out of me on Sunday.  We are so blessed to be able to hear from Him and to have such a wonderful gentle Savior as He. I am grateful to Him that works great miracles is lives of His people. Amen! Amen! Amen!

This week we will be continuing to look at 1 John and the reality that “God is Light”. He is not “a light” or “the light” – He is light. This is an awesome thing to think about. It is only through Him that we can really “see”. It is through Him that we can really know ourselves. I have been studying the Greek in this passage and there is even a more deep meaning behind these next few verses. We look at what Light (yes, it is capitalized)  means to us (as Christians) and how we respond to Light. If we except this Light what will it look like to us and to those around us? We will see if there is any areas that still need this Light to shine in us and through us. We will see how this Light has everything to do with the purification process of the souls of man kind and how society really wants nothing to do with Light.

Well, I am looking forward to seeing you all in the house of the Lord on Sunday!

In His Grip,
Pastor Jason