2 Peter 2:21 English Standard Version (ESV) For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

We were speaking yesterday about walking in the light, Jesus is the light. He is the way of righteousness.

Philippians 3:9 English Standard Version (ESV) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

Isaiah 58:2 English Standard Version (ESV) Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

Much of this seeking righteousness by faith requires a commitment on our parts to seek Him, to draw near to the abiding Christ. While we are always in His abiding presence, that is one of the heart and not necessarily one of the mind. We think we know and yet discover by the course of consequences that perhaps we don’t know everything.

See the words of Isaiah, “as if they were a nation that did righteousness”. As if can be some really harsh words when we discover our “as if” in the light of God’s truth to be self-imposed and not God led.

Having heard the prayers of others that begin, “hey it’s me just checking in.” it makes me wonder why they were not aware of His presence all the time. He abides in us and never leaves us. Do we abandon Him? No, He is there even when we are paying more attention to other things.

Matthew 26:40 English Standard Version (ESV) And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?”

Even Peter, James, and John could not remain alert. We all drift off.

John 8:10-12 English Standard Version

¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”

I Am the Light of the World

¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Asks yourself this question; since God knows all things and that sin remains with us and tells us in 1^st John 1:8 “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Then is telling her not to sin any more practical?

Practical is one of those words that distinguishes our ability to perform. This one sin she had been committing, the one she was about to be stoned for committing, was one sin she could walk away from. It was practical to ask her to leave that one sin. It was not practical to leave all sin for sin lives with us because we are human.

God heals us of a few things in this life that we are not able to escape. Once He frees us of those entanglements, He makes it practical to leave those sins alone. Yet we are warned about those sins we have left behind as we walk in His light.

Romans 6:6 English Standard Version (ESV) We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

If we consider ourselves dead to sin, then we will choose not to be entangled in it again. Those entanglements are of known sins. It is practical to expect the power to resist having tasted the results of those sins and the consequences of choice. It is like a warning sign saying to us, sin is ahead.