Re:Verse passage – Ephesians 5:8-14 (day seven)
for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord. vs 8
You were darkness itself. Before you were adopted as a child of the light, you were eternally separated from God with sin darkening your soul. Verses 3-7 showed us that immorality, impurity, covetousness, and crude humor are symptoms of this darkness.
Despite our best efforts to walk in the light, these deeds of darkness have a way of sneaking back in don’t they? Darkness is who we were and that past continues to have its hold on our life. We let it back in out of familiarity, thinking the taste of darkness won’t completely extinguish our light. Though it may not be extinguished, participating in such deeds causes our light to become more dim.
We need repentance to recharge our light by reaching the darkest corners of our heart, even those places where we are holding on to the familiarity of our past. Repentance allows us to personally walk in the light as children of the light to help the light to shine in the darkest parts of the world.
