Shedding some light
8You used to be like people living in the dark, but now you are people of the light because you belong to the Lord. So act like people of the light 9and make your light shine. Be good and honest and truthful, 10as you try to please the Lord. 11Don’t take part in doing those worthless things that are done in the dark.
Instead, show how wrong they are. 12It is disgusting even to talk about what is done in the dark. 13But the light will show what these things are really like. 14Light shows up everything, just as the Scriptures say, “Wake up from your sleep
and rise from death.
Then Christ will shine on you.”
One of the best things about Spring is the longer days. More light in our lives, both morning and evening.
Of course the problem then is that the light shows up all kinds of things that you had never noticed or managed to ignore in the darker days. Our windows always look terrible when the sun shines on them, showing up all the dirt that has accrued.
The presence of God brightens up lives and gives clarity to see.
People who walk with God, no longer live in the darkness. He brings light to our lives.
That light peers into all the corners, shows the dust, the cobwebs, the smears that have appeared. But it also gives you the light to be able to see to do something about it.
Clean surfaces reflect light, dusty ones not so well.
What does God ask of those who live in the light? Honesty and truthfulness. Christ is shining on us, does that light also reflect from us?
Lord
shine on me,
that I may reflect your light.
Help me to live my life
in your honesty,
truth
and goodness
Pam's Perambulation 