1 John 1:4-7

"And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
This then is the message we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
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 1:4-7


This is cool.  First, because they are writing to us so that we will be happy.  That seems like a great motivation for writing. :)  At my job I read things that other people have written all day, and I am beginning to think that some people write for the express purpose of boring me out of my skull... but I don't know.  I could be wrong. :)  Anyway... not just happy but FULL of happiness... back to the theme of filling the emptiness that we feel inside sometimes.
And then... this is so cool.  God is light, and there is no darkness at all... a cool mental image for me.  when I get kind of down, I always say that I feel kind of dark... kind of like the mist of darkness that obstructs the way to the tree of life in Lehi's dream.  God is full of light, and doesn't have any of that darkness within, at all... and so, he can show me how to get it out of ME, right?  And, someday, in learning to become like him, perhaps I will get to the point where I never feel that darkness, not even occasionally on a bad day... no more bad days.  now *that* will be incredible.
And, even for now... the more we walk in the light, the closer we are to Him... the more we can grow to know Him and learn from Him. ... have fellowship with him.  doesn't that sound cool?  Wouldn't it be so great to just sit around with God and talk to him?  I had this dream once, when I was in college, I was probably 18 or 19... and in this dream a whole bunch of my friends and I were eating pizza and talking, and Christ came in.  And he sat down and talked with us as well.  And the thing that I noticed in the dream was that he always knew exactly what to say to each of them, what was going on in their lives, how to make them smile... and even though he was the center of attention, just by being there... *he* focused on each individual person, and made them feel like they were the whole world.  Anyway... this is scripture of the day, not dream of the day (hmm...) but that's what I think of when I think of fellowship with God... I think of just talking to him, over pizza.  Weird, eh? :)  Anyway, the whole idea of fellowship, with him, with each other... awesome... and then, that if we do all these cool things that sound great anyway... walk in the light, fellowship with God... that we will be purified and cleansed from sin, and then *we* can be without darkness as well... sounds like a pretty good deal to me. :)