Fellowship only happens in the light!
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father(think about that) and with His Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our(or your) joy complete(there is a joy in fellowship). 1 John 1:3,4
John was the apostle whom Jesus loved and much of his writings are about love and relationship. 1 John begins with personal testimony, ‘we have heard, seen with our own eyes, which we have touched with our hands’. All personal testimony, we and our, not hearsay, not somebody else’s account. The reason for these eyewitness accounts is given in V3, ‘so that you may have FELLOWSHIP with us. And our FELLOWSHIP is with the Father and the Son’. The word fellowship occurs four times in verses 3,6 and 7. The fellowship mentioned is on two levels, with God twice and with one another, also twice in these verses.
So God wants a people to have fellowship with Him and has invited us into that fellowship through Jesus sacrifice. The Greek word translated ‘fellowship’ is Koinonia and means communion, sharing in common. It’s no small thing to be invited into fellowship with God. I do believe it’s positional, because we are in Christ(God sees us in Him) but these verses also state it’s according to our walk.
“If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin”. 1 John 1:6,7
We must walk in the light to have true fellowship with God and one another. If we knowingly walk in deliberate sin we only deceive ourselves. The next two verses provide a remedy for our condition if we haven’t been walking in the light.
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness”. 1 John 1:8,9
We need to accept our responsibility to walk in the light, now. The Lord has paid the price for us to do this, so let’s benefit from His sacrifice today.
God bless and keep you today.