August 29th, 2025

Read Ephesians 5:8-13 NIV

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 

The book of Ephesians is full of opposites. Death and life, foreigners and citizens, old self and new self. And in today’s verses: darkness and light.  I love that Paul tells us to live as children of the light.  

I have three children and if you were to observe them, you would find that they have some characteristics that seem to come from a common place. It would not take you long to determine that growing up in our home has had influence on who they are now as adults. Ben and I are far from perfect parents. Any good that you might see in our kids is most certainly more about the evidence of God’s grace toward us than it is about our parenting skills, but the evidence of the family they belong to is there. However, in Jesus we have a perfect example. He brings love and light to everyone and everything. SO, it stands to reason that just as my children reflect a bit of my husband and me…as God’s children we should reflect Him. Living as children of the light – influenced by the light and producing good fruit like goodness, righteousness, and truth with our lives.  Living as children of the light is an outward display of our identity…of who our Father is.  

How do you see the evidence of living as a child of light in your life? In what ways can you continue to surrender your life to the light of Christ so that you can grow in the way you live as a child of light?