God is the flowing fount of “life” … who gives us the “light of life.”  His light flows from our Spirit shining into our heart’s mind.

“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.” (Psalm 36:9) 

“Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.” (Psalm 97:11)

Man’s “conscience” is the gateway of man’s heart; to either accept or reject the ‘light’ of the Spirit of God.

Christ as the “light of life” flows … from the believer’s spirit … into his Soul’s mind …via the Conscience of his human spirit. The Conscience of the soul’s heart is felt as a co-perception in our ‘mind.’ The conscience is the gateway or door to our heart. We hear Him there knocking at the DOOR of our heart.

Rev. 3:20 … I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him…

The heart’s DOOR is the CONSCIENCE that always speaks the TRUTH of God.

• As DOOR to a building limits access. Our heart limits God’s access to our soul. (“Conscience” in Greek is, “sundenesis,” meaning “a co-perception,” an alternate voice)
• Whatever enters “the heart” of a man comes via his Conscience.
• When a believer rejects his Conscience, his heart is closed to God’s Spirit.
• A Humbled Heart is open to the prompting of the Conscience and thereby is receptive of God’s “light of life.”

In order to have a stronger, broader, and greater faith, we need more of a view of the Lord as our all-sufficient all. This is why we need to have a clear conscience, know more of the Word of Christ as our all... to give us a broader view. Then we shall have greater sight, which produces an even greater faith. This kind of faith deepens our union with the Lord; on the one hand it brings us deeper into the Spirit of Christ and on the other hand it brings God deeper into our individual souls. In other words, such faith always produces a greater depth of union with God as seen in our daily walk.

Genuine faith is active, never in hopeless. It is living. It brings God into us, making God and us to become one. This living subjective faith works by God’s “work of faith” in us… to produce our work of faith

1 Thes. 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 1 Thes. 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

“... the work of faith” refers to acts of faith. Suppose you share the gospel with an unbeliever. The unbeliever receives and accepts the word, faith is produced in him, and through this faith he is regenerated or born of God and set in Christ, into “the body of Christ,” and simultaneously …has Christ’s Spirit is dispensed into his spirit. Now that he has faith, certain actions are sure to follow. For example, he may spontaneously realize God is His Father and have a heart of thanksgiving…saying so to the Lord. Or, he may go home and speak to his wife and children about believing in the Lord Jesus. Both the thanksgiving and the sharing of the Lord are works of (from) faith. Faith works through God’s grace, power, and light. Also, when a new believer shares Christ with others, the faith of Christ working within him may actually enlighten him concerning his attitude toward family or others. Then he may confess his shortcomings to the Lord and apologize to his or her spouse concerning certain matters. This also is a ‘work of faith’ in operation.

Have faith we are very different from those who do not have faith. Before they had faith, some indulged in grossly sinful things. Now that they have faith, they can no longer indulge in these things willingly, with a clear conscience. Spontaneously, as an action, a work of faith, we refrain from those things.

Before we were saved, we perhaps were not good neighbors. But after they were saved and came to have faith, we became more kind, gentle, loving, and considerate. No one taught us or required us to be different. This change was spontaneously produced by the faith working within us… a sort of metamorphosis has occurred due to new life in us.

These are illustrations of the ongoing “work of the faith,” which is by Christ ‘light and life’ within the believer’s spirit… moving upon his soul… to change our outward expression… from “glory to glory” (from one level of the expression of Christ’s life to another) by the Spirit. (2 Cor 3:17-18). This is all of and by “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”