Light

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That which God is. It la one of His two essential qualities, the other being Love. All who are brought to God are thus necessarily in the light (Eph. 5:88For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (Ephesians 5:8)).
They are no longer darkness or in darkness, but are light and in the light. On this fact rests their responsibility to walk according to it. If they sin, they sin in the light and against the light. This attribute of God is connected with conscience, or the sense of moral responsibility, just as love on the other hand connects itself with the heart, the seat of the affections. God thus, in this double character, answers to both sides of man’s nature. The center of this light is Christ, both now (John 1) and hereafter (Rey. 21:23). The inheritance of the saints is in light, heaven being constantly thus characterized in contrast to the darkness, and outer darkness of hell. Practically the way to be light is to have a single eye (Matt. 6:2222The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. (Matthew 6:22)).