In the Light

I've been reading 1 John intermittently throughout the last month or two. The first chapter is beautiful, intriguing and convicting.
Who among us walk in light, yet choose the darkness time after time?
How many in the dark grapple for the Light we've seen and touched, and yet we don't choose to hold fast to the Light.
Our sins can no longer hold us, they have no control over us anymore ad we walk in the Light. We are deceived and liars if we choose to walk in sin as we have seen the Light.
How many of us choose the path of ease and thus walk I'm darkness over the Light - a path of obedience, sacrifice, and freedom.
I know my will is strong, my self desire at times feels insurmountable even to the King of Kings.
Yet there lies in the beauty of the Light. The cleansing blood, that forgives our sins and reconciles us one to another. That gift cannot be taken away, as it was paid by the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus the Son of God.
He is faithful to forgive, but we must be faithful to repent. If we lie To ourselves, and say we have not sinned the Light cannot remain in us. Nor if we choose to sin over and over rather than remain in the Light.

It's not easy to admit our wrongdoings, nor is it easy to repent to the other (especially an intimate other). But Christ didn't differentiate between the stranger and the brother ; the soldier and the friend. Our repentance and heart towards the Light affects everything we cannot live in darkness anymore.