Sons And Daughters Of Light

 

1st Thessalonians 5:4-8

"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation."

The world we live in is corrupted and full of darkness! The only way out of the this darkness is to enter God's Kingdom by being baptized in water and filled with His Spirit, His Light and His Grace!

We need the Light of Jesus in our souls to overcome the evil and darkeness of the principalities and powers that rule over this world. 

Jesus said that those who believe in Him would NEVER walk in darkness, but would have the light of life!

John 8:12

"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

People can become so used to living and sitting in darkness, that when the light comes the run away from it, reject it, and fight against it, because they are full of evil and darkness themselves!!

Matthew 4:16

6 "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, Light has dawned.”

John 1:4

"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."

No matter how hard the devil and those who serve him, fight against true blood bought, Spirit filled followers of Jesus, they CANNOT overcome the Light of Jesus and His power in us!!

The day will come when the man of sin will be given power over the saints to wear them out, but it will lead to our reception into Heaven and the eternal Paradise of God!

John 3:18-21

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Those who practice evil hate those who walk in the light, love, truth and peace of Jesus. This is why they fight so hard to stay out of the light, because they don't want to be exposed and they don't want their evil deeds to be known!! They love darkness rather than light!!

You can understand what sin, evil and darkness does when it enters the soul of human beings through the interaction between God and Adam and Eve when they first sinned.

In Genesis chapter 3, after eating from the tree God told them not to eat from, “their eyes were opened.” They suddenly felt shame, fear, and guilt. Before sin, they had innocence and open fellowship with God. After sin entered, their relationship changed.

Genesis  3:8-10

"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

What did Adam and Eve feel after the fall?

Shame — they realized their nakedness and vulnerability.
Fear of judgment — they knew they had disobeyed God.
Guilt — sin made them want to avoid God instead of run toward Him.
Separation — sin created spiritual distance between humanity and God.

It’s one of the Bible’s earliest pictures of what sin does to people: instead of feeling safe in God’s presence, humans begin hiding emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Let us learn from the inspired scriptures why we should not sin, why we shouldn't practice evil deeds, why we should stay out of the darkness, why we need to enter God's Kingdom, why we need the light of Jesus and His Spirit shinning in our hearts. Why? So that we can become sons and daughters of Light!

Walking In The Light,

Tyrone