Ephesians 5:8-10
“You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.”
“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. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.”
This makes me think of a clear summer morning. The day is full of promise. I feel fresh and energetic. I see clearly. There are so many things I could do. But that is not what the text says. Only my path is lit. My world is still a dark place. These verses are not a call to easy living, but to a battlefield. Soldiering on my path, allowing the Lord’s illumination to shine, is a service to my fellow man. This is what pleases Christ.
Lord, how I need you help in this! I feel so small and vulnerable. I trust that you, in some mysterious way, use the little I can do, adding a bit mote of your light to the world. I haven’t much but what I do have is yours.