David Jeremiah (September 5, 2024) Daily Devotional: The Saint in Sunshine.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Ephesians 5:11
Recommended Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14 - Walk in Light - 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
The last half of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians revolves around the idea of walking. We’re to walk worthy of the calling with which we are called (4:1), to walk in love (5:2), to walk as wise (5:15), and to walk in light. Ephesians 5:8 says, “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.”
That means we’re to avoid doing things that people do in darkness—in moral and spiritual darkness. Our world is a dark place, and loathsome creatures thrive in the darkness—pornography, cheating, profanity, compromise, fearfulness, anxiety, depression, unrestrained anger, and personal bitterness.
We may be in the world, but we are not of the world. We can’t help it that people around us are wrapped up in the things of this world and the darkness. We must love them and minister to them. But we cannot be partakers with them. Visualize yourself today wrapped in a blanket of light! You’ll be a saint in sunshine.
You will walk in sunshine. The Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. Rev. James Fleming
