Bible Reading: Jeremiah 27-28; 2 Timothy 4
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:” – Ephesians 5:8
The Bible makes no mistake when it comes to the identity of the new creation in Christ Jesus. He calls the believer light.
Jesus confidently declared in John 8:12, “… I am the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” It is important to hear what Jesus said in this verse. He is not saying that God’s light shines through Him rather He says that He is the Light.
In the same way, Jesus calls us light. Jesus said in Matthew 5:14, “YOU ARE THE LIGHT of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Apostle Paul in our text says that we were once darkness. Notice he did not say we were walking in the darkness, he said we were darkness. It does not matter what we did or didn’t do, we were darkness but that has changed! Now in Christ, we are light in God. We are the sons and daughters of light. We bring hope to the hopeless. We are the solution. We are the answer to our world.
It is important to know that as a child of God, He is not just shining His light through you rather you are light just as He is light. You aren’t the medium through which His light shines rather you are the very light that He shines into the darkness. You are the example of success and the good life.
We are exactly like Jesus was in His earth walk. This is the truth and consciousness that you must walk with every day of your life and that starts today.
Prayer: Father, thank you for making me the light of my world. The darkness of this world has no part in me in Jesus Name!