Doing It God's Way

Good Morning!! What criteria do you use in order to decide, for or against a particular action, ambition, or way of life? Do you weigh the financial benefit, the career advancement, or perhaps the physical pleasure that any given opportunity may afford? Paul tells us, first, to walk as children of light. In other words, our lives ought to be radically, fundamentally, unmistakably different that those who do not claim Christ as their Lord and Savior. Light is glaringly different than darkness.


For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,...and find out what pleases the Lord.—Ephesians 5:8b, 10 (NIV)

We should not be asking the same questions that any one in the world would ask, in our same situation. We should not be making decisions that reflect the priorities and self-seeking ways of sinful, unsaved individuals. We should not have the same goals as those who don't have an eternal perspective. In short, Paul says, we should be testing everything to see,...not whether it is pleasing to our palate or to the world,...but what is acceptable to the Lord. Is this thing in agreement with His Word? Will this draw me closer to Christ? Does this further the cause of Christ in the world, through me?

God has not left us in the dark regarding how to walk as children of light,
...take His Word, discover what is acceptable to the Lord, and walk in it as a child of light.

 

Sweet and Holy Spirit, help us to make God's way, our ways. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

 

"The naked truth is always better, than a dressed up lie."