Notes of Faith September 5, 2024
The Saint in Sunshine
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Ephesians 5:11
The last half of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians revolves around the idea of walking. We’re to walk worthy of the calling with which we are called (4:1), to walk in love (5:2), to walk as wise (5:15), and to walk in light. Ephesians 5:8 says, “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.”
Recommended Reading:
Ephesians 5:8-14
That means we’re to avoid doing things that people do in darkness—in moral and spiritual darkness. Our world is a dark place, and loathsome creatures thrive in the darkness—pornography, cheating, profanity, compromise, fearfulness, anxiety, depression, unrestrained anger, and personal bitterness.
We may be in the world, but we are not of the world. We can’t help it that people around us are wrapped up in the things of this world and the darkness. We must love them and minister to them. But we cannot be partakers with them. Visualize yourself today wrapped in a blanket of light! You’ll be a saint in sunshine.
You will walk in sunshine. The Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory.
Rev. James Fleming
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all! Come to the light. Walk in the light. Be flooded with the glory of God for all eternity as you discipline yourself to choose light over darkness.
Pastor Dale