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This morning a devotional sent me to 1 John 1:1-10 and as my eyes moved across the words they stopped on v6.

If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

As I looked up from words I had just read, I watched as a gentle breeze rocked the bird feeder outside the sunroom window, and I considered what “darkness” would be. My first thought fell under the category “adultery” and I remembered a Bible study I attended in the days of yore. I have yet to find someone whom I would deem had more biblical knowledge than the facilitator of that class who said, “Any sexual immorality is ‘adultery’”.

Naturally, my mind then went to those I think would fall under the “we” category. The pastor who was secretly having an affair with a married woman in the congregation. The man who stood at the alter reading scripture on Sundays while cheating on his wife the other six days. The homosexual behavior of another proudly wearing a gold cross around his neck or the man dressed as a woman whose justification is he is living the life God created him to live. Then I looked in the mirror. It was there I saw a judgmental woman, a gossip, and in a sense, a liar and a hypocrite. All of which would also fall under the “darkness” column and I was left with realizing I had a lot of repenting to do, and I prayed for the others that would benefit from it too.

In all the instances that come to mind where people I know are living in the darkness, I can’t think of one I don’t love. I can’t think of one I would want placed on the left side of the throne during the impending judgement. And a sense of sadness fell over me.