In The Lord You Are Light

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, for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5:8-14

How many of us live in shuttered rooms with candles for light? Wouldn’t it be much easier if we threw the shutters open and let God’s light shine in on us?

When the candles that light up our darkness are blown out, rejoice that God is throwing open the shuttered windows of our souls and pouring in the sunshine of His love.

We value the light more fully

after we have come through the darkness.

Our Daily Bread – August 9, 2008