Children Of Light

Children Of Light

What words would you use to describe darkness?

What words would you use to describe light?

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.

Ephesians 5:8

Paul uses the extreme contrast between light and darkness to help us understand the extreme contrast between who we were before we knew God and who we are in God.

Most children are scared of the dark at some point. You may remember a time when you felt lost or trapped in the dark. You may also remember the joy, relief and love that you felt when your parent or caregiver arrived on the scene and flipped a light on.

This is a taste of the joy, relief and love that we experience when we invite God into our darkness to rescue us. And when we do, we become children of light.

This means that we don’t go back into the darkness. Instead, we work to fight it. We work to love God, to love others and to avoid sin. We are no longer in darkness. We have been rescued.

PRAYER

Dear God, thank you for rescuing us. Please help us to live like children of light. Amen.