SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/7/2019 10:06 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“What We Are”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:8
Message of the
verses: “8
for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of
Light.”
We mentioned in an earlier SD on
this verse two verbs, and the second one we want to look at is the word
“are.” The verb tells us two important
things which we will look at in this rather short SD. It is in the present tense and this indicates
our spiritual condition, which contrasts to what we were before we trust
Christ. “Now [we] are light in the
Lord.” For Christ “delivered us from the
domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son” (Col.
1:13), and He has “called [us] out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1
Peter 2:9).
John MacArthur writes “Like ‘were’
the verb ‘are’ is not modified.
Scripture sometimes speaks of believers being in and of the light, but
here we are said to be light. ‘You are the light of the world,’ Jesus said
(Matt. 5:14). Because we now share
Christ’s own nature, we share in His light.
Just as He is the ‘light of the world’ (John 8:12), His people are also
‘the light of the world’ (Matt. 5:14).
Because we are in the Lord, we
who were once children of darkness are now children
of light, and it is as such children that we should walk.”
As we think about these important
words, words that tell us one of the many things that we now are and have
because we are in Christ, it
is good for us to pause and think about this important truth of being light. We talked in our last SD about the story of
the man trapped in some kind of mine or cave in the darkness, and then when he
found the light he desired the darkness more than the light we know that if we
are a true believer in Jesus Christ, that is if we realized one day that we
were “born wrong” born with a nature to only sin, and then we realized that
Jesus Christ, “The Light of the World” came to earth to pay for our
transgressions, and then we accepted Him as Savior and Lord, that unlike the
person in this cave or mine we came to the Light and confessed Him as our
Savior and Lord. Now since all of this
has happened to us and because we are “light” we are to walk in the Light and a
part of that walking in the Light is to tell others about the Light we are
walking in. To share with them in a very
non-confrontational way that they are walking in darkness and need to come to
the Light in order to be saved from their sins.
I am not saying that it is easy to
walk in the light as we, even though we are truly saved have to watch out for
the world, the flesh, and the devil, as even though we are dead to these
enemies we are tempted to follow after them.
WALK IN THE LIGHT!
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: It is my
desire to walk in the light and not, when I am tempted, follow the enemies who
have been defeated.
My Steps of Faith for Today: One of the
things that I am learning about humility is that all of the things that I do
for the cause of Christ are being done because Christ is in me, and the Holy
Spirit is guiding me to do the things that God has planned for my life in
eternity past, so I can never be proud of doing these things, but praise the
Lord for allowing me to do them.
Today’s
quotation is from the man who has given all of the quotations that I am using,
Dr. David Jeremiah who said “If we ignore divine directives, we cannot enjoy
God’s blessings.” I have to say that
this quotation surely goes along with what we are looking at in today’s
SD.
6/7/2019 10:29
AM
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