1 João 1

1 João 1:5

Vernon McGee: This again is a “He and me” psalm. “The LORD is my light and my salvation.” “He is my light.” He is a holy God. He is the One who directs and guides me by the light of His Word. Later the psalmist will say, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Ps. 119:105). H C Leupold: Any Christian might well wish that he could in times of trouble always occupy as lofty a ground as do these verses. This is as we should always be minded if the Lord is truly our “light and salvation.” “Light” means more than intellectual insight, and “salvation” obviously means deliverance from every form of evil. “Light” includes joy (cf., 97:11), life, and hope. If an individual’s heart is thus truly established in God, what or whom could he fear? If one continually takes refuge in Him as the “refuge of one’s life,” what reason is there for ever being afraid? This is a certainty that faith has often spoken to our hearts. We fail to carry through on the obvious logic of this position. F F Bruce: light: here a symbol of life (cf. 36:9; 56:13; Job 3:20) and perhaps joy (cf. 97:11; Isa. 9:2) and salvation (cf. Isa. 58:8). The ‘Light of Israel’ (Isa. 10:17; cf. 60:19 f.) is also the source of life and salvation for the individual (cf. Ps. 18:28). (New International Bible Commentary) Eric Lane: This is one of the greatest expressions of confidence in God in the whole Bible, perhaps only surpassed by Romans 8:28-39. Derek Kidner: Light is a natural figure for almost everything that is positive, from truth and goodness to joy and vitality (e.g., respectively, Ps. 43:3; Isa. 5:20; Ps. 97:11; 36:9), to name but a few. Here it is the answer to fear (1, 3) and to the forces of evil. Robert Bratcher: Only here in the Old Testament is Yahweh called my light; this means he is the source of life and vitality. Sir Richard Baker: "Light" which makes all things visible, was the first made of all visible things; and whether God did it for our example, or no, I know not; but ever since, in imitation of this manner of God's proceeding, the first thing we do when we intend to do anything, is to get us "light." Dr Charles Ryrie: Light dispels the anxieties and dangers of darkness… Donald Williams: As light God is the Revealer (John 1:4, 5), James Montgomery