"True Light" -2

"He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now." (1 John 2:9) No simpler way to put it, really, because if God is all light, then how can we think that we are in fellowship with God while holding onto darkness? There must be a purposed desire in us to let God's light shine through us, and the only thing that brings that desire is the removal of darkness. Going back a few verses to the beginning of chapter 2, we can see what creates this removal of the darkness in our lives, and it's the desire to walk as Jesus walked. John starts out in verse one by saying, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." The thought he is getting across here has to do with the desire to sin not; that there is no desire to sin; however, if we do stumble into sin, we have a substitutionary Advocate who pleads our cause with the Father. It should also be dully noted that if we have the Holy Spirit within us, then He will also plead God's cause with us, which is where the desire not to sin originates. Having said that, I think the reason we can find ourselves sinning against our brother, is because we do not listen to the Holy Spirit who pleads God's cause with us, but instead let pride dictate our actions; which, in case you did not know, is sin. And sin that we commit in ignorance and in a moment of passion is sin that we so rarely completely deal with, because the root of that sin stems from pride we have within us that must be dealt with completely; otherwise we will just do it again to someone else, or to that same brother, but twofold...