18 JAN 23 Wednesday: A Closer Walk Devotional
“For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.” Ephesians 5:8-9
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because thou art with me.” Believers know well that we are in a war and there will be days that will be dark. Our struggles become real as they say. Pain, suffering, and being overwhelmed emotionally is the lot for the children of God too. We are not exempt, but it is different for us.
It is a temporary event that God can use to shape and develop us like precious metals. The heat and pressure purifies the believer and brings glory to God in the process. At the end of our lives in this mortal body, we move on to be in the fullness of God himself in an eternal body that experiences no pain, suffering, or death. Whereas the lost face eternal suffering.
Paul gives plain instruction in chapter five to stay in alignment with God and to live a life that burns through the darkest places of our lives. Imitate God, embrace a life of love, and to live in the light which produces the good, right, and true things that make you strong and is a pleasing aroma to God. We were once evil and darkness, now we are light. We can expose self-inflicted darkness which is our sins or external foes that wish to kill and destroy us.
Are you fully living in the light or still dabbling in darkness?
Reading Plan: Psalm 38; Isa. 44:24-45:7; Eph. 5:1-14; Mark 4:1-20
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