Walking in the light signifies living in truth and holiness, reflecting Christ's purity and guidance (1 John 1:7). Illustrations often use imagery of sunlight and shadows to contrast the clarity and joy of light with the confusion and danger of darkness, emphasizing the believer's call to daily obedience and fellowship with God.
Facing the sun symbolizes walking in light and truth, turning away brings only shadows and loss.
When a man walketh in the sun, if his face be towards it, he hath nothing before him but bright shining light and comfortable heats but, let him once turn his back to the sun, what hath he before him but a shadow? And what is a shadow but the privation of light and heat of the sun? yea, it is but to behold his own shadow, defrauding himself of the other. Spencer.
Keeping your face toward God brings peace and joy, like following the Sun of Righteousness.
When I was a little boy I tried to catch my shadow. I don’t know if you were ever so foolish; but I remember running after it, and trying to get ahead of it. I could not see why the shadow always kept ahead of me. Once I happened to be racing with my face to the sun, and I looked over my head and saw my shadow behind me, and it kept behind me all the way.
It is the same with the Sun of Righteousness. Peace and Joy will go with you while you go with your face toward Him, but those who turn their backs on the Sun are in darkness all the time. Turn to the light of God, and the reflection will flash in your heart.
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