Start in the Light

The member of AA is told that he must maintain his standing in the sunlight of the Spirit.

The Bible teaches that for the believer in Christ and Him Crucified, he is already in the light:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7)

In fact, every believer who rests in the promise of Christ and Him Crucified is defined by His light:

"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." (1 Thessalonians 5: 5)

How can we not walk in the Sunlight of the Spirit?

In effect, every day we must wake up not in order to get right with God, but remember by receiving His gifts of righteousness and grace that we are now in the light, for God is Light:

"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." (1 John 1: 5)

and

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1: 17)

Instead of looking at ourselves, our thoughts, our deeds, our words, let us take in the Word of God:

"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matthew 4: 4)

Start in the Light when you wake up every day, because that is where you are.