Children of light

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light – Ephesians 5.8

This is a dark, dark world. It seems to be getting darker and darker all the time. Sin becomes more and more prevalent that the world accepts it more and more. Long ago Christ was sent into the world of darkness to bring light. He was the Light of the world, but the world rejected Him because they loved their darkness more than they loved His light. His light exposes sin and people don't like to have their sin exposed.

All of us were once trapped in that darkness. Those who have accepted the Light of Christ are now lights in this world. We are called to walk in the light so that we can introduce them to the Light that is in Christ.

Our walk as children of light is how we are going to show a way out of the darkness.

But there may be times and places when it seems especially dark and when our light is all the light that there is. It is those times when walking as children of light is the most important of all. It is then that we have the chance to shine the brightest. Sometimes it may be that one glimmer of light may the all the light that some people will ever have. 

'This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine...'

One of the first verses I ever memorised sticks in my head today. Funny thing is that I didn’t learn it in church or even in a Christian organisation. It was in a civic group for teen boys. They stressed things like doing good things and being model citizens and helping other. So they used Matthew 5.16 as one of their teachings. It worked there, but it works even better for those of us who are indeed the children of light.

‘Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.’