Light and darkness

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. – Ephesians 5.11-14

Darkness and light are two things that are in absolute contrast. John wrote about a world that was in darkness until Jesus came as the Light to shine in that darkness. The world rejected the Light because in this broken world men love darkness more than they love light.

When Jesus left He left us a children of light as we saw yesterday. Here Paul makes an application of that truth. As we walk as children of light we must not fellowship with the works of darkness. We must deal with those trapped in darkness, but we cannot partake of the wasteful works of the darkness.

Wake up, Paul writes, wake up from your spiritual deadness and Christ will give you light that allows you to make a difference in this dark world.

We are told to be a reproof to this world. Sometimes we do have to step out and speak out and openly reprove sin around us.

Here though we find that our very lives can be a reproof to this world. When our light is shining it is going to disturb the darkness just because it is there. The world loves darkness more than light to when the light shines it reveals sins and folks don’t tend to like that.

But some are looking for light to get them out of darkness. That’s why we must ‘let our light so shine before men that they might see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.

This little light of mine, I going to let it shine!