Walking With Christ

⚓ Floatie:  God Is Light

1 John 1:5  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.(ESV)

Light is not a metaphor.  It is the foundation of creation.  God spoke, “Let there be light,” and every wavelength, every spectrum, every particle of existence came alive.  Creation is not something God made and walked away from—it is held together moment by moment in Him (Colossians 1:17).

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✒️ Forge:  Refracted Radiance

We often imagine God’s attributes as contradictions—wrath vs. love, justice vs. mercy.  But these are not contradictions; they are degrees of separation.  Like pure white light refracted into colors, God’s singular nature radiates differently depending on where you stand.

• To the righteous:  His holiness shines as mercy.
• To the rebellious:  His holiness burns as wrath.
• To all:  His presence sustains.  Nothing exists outside Him.

Hell, then, is not the absence of God.  Nothing can be absent from Him.  Hell is His presence without favor—existence exposed to His holiness but cut off from His mercy.  That is why Scripture can describe it both as fire and as darkness.  It is God’s light unfiltered by grace.

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⚒️ Anvil:  The Filter of Christ

We cannot reduce sin to a checklist.  Sin is falling short of the standard, and the standard is God Himself.  The question is never “How bad was your crime?” but “Were you in Christ, the filter of grace—or outside Him?”

At Calvary, Jesus took in the cup of wrath and poured out the cup of grace.  He became the filter through which God’s wrath is transfigured into mercy.  Wrath does not vanish—it is absorbed, purified, and released as grace for those who are in Him.

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🔥 Ember:  The Binary of Presence

This means the binary is not between God’s attributes, but between our position in Him.  Wrath and grace are the same radiance, refracted through Christ.  In Him, wrath becomes grace.  Outside Him, wrath remains wrath.

This should leave us trembling—and grateful.  Trembling because we cannot stand before unfiltered holiness.  Grateful because Jesus stood there for us.

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🌿 Covenant Triumph:  The City of Light

Revelation 21:23  And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.(ESV)

The end of the story is not fire and sulfur but light itself—the Lamb as our lamp.  Those who are in Him will live forever in God’s unfiltered presence, and what would have been wrath will be only grace.

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[⚓ Floatie] [✒️ Forge] [⚒️ Anvil] [🔥 Ember] [🌿 Covenant Triumph]
This post follows the Forge Baseline Rule—layered truth for the discerning remnant.

Reflection Questions

1. When you think of God’s wrath, do you see it as separate from His love—or as love confronting sin?
2. Where in your own life do you see His light refracted as mercy, and where do you feel the burn of conviction?
3. If wrath and grace are the same radiance, how does that change the way you view hell—not as God’s absence, but His presence without favor?
4. What does it mean for you, personally, that Jesus absorbed wrath and poured out grace on your behalf?