Read Ephesians 5:8-14
8You yourselves used to be in the
darkness, but since you have become the Lord’s people, you are in the light. So
you must live like people who belong to the light, 9for it is the
lighth
that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
10Try to learn what pleases the Lord. 11Have nothing to
do with the worthless things that people do, things that belong to the
darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light. 12(It is really too
shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.) 13And
when all things are brought out to the light, then their true nature is clearly
revealed; 14for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light.i
That is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
and rise from death,
and Christ will shine on you.
Think
As Paul writes to a Christian
community he speaks of some of the things that they used to do – in this
passage he focuses more on the positive things that they are doing; the people
that they are becoming. He encourages
them to be light in a world of darkness.
Pray
Lord, let
your light overcome my darkness.
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