Now In The Lord You Are Light
God in Christ has forgiven you.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
But fornication and impurity of any
kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among
saints. Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead,
let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure
person, or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the
Let no one deceive you with empty
words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are
disobedient. Therefore do not be associated with them. For once you were
darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light – for
the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to
find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of
darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such
people do secretly; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,…
If Christians are controlled by lust,
hate, envy, pride, impatience, or bitterness, they are actually choosing to
live off the waste products of the world. This might be understandable if they
had no resources to draw from. You would expect that kind of behavior from
people without faith in Christ. But that is not the case for believers. We have
the Word of truth and the help of the Holy Spirit. We have no excuse for
groveling in the dirt of sin when the power of God is at our disposal.
We should ask our Father to forgive us
from eating waste when He has prepared a banquet for us.
One taste of
God’s grace can make us lose our hunger for the world.
Our Daily
Bread –