“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)
This comparison between Christians and creation can be powerful if we allow it to be.
Paul is teaching us that we are darkness and that the only light in us is Christ.
Jesus our Lord did not die to make lights shine brighter - He died to replace darkness with light.
Jesus our Lord didn’t die to make good people better - He died to make sinners into saints.
Self - righteousness is so subtle, it is so deadly, and it whispers throughout churches.
How do we forget our true state before we were called to follow Jesus?
Well John - “I was never really bad - I grew up a good girl - I didn’t do those bad things other people did.” Well friend Paul says you were darkness.
Would it not change our attitudes towards Christians who are not as far along the path with Christ as we are if we would remember that we were darkness – that we are still darkness?
Let us remember that the light shines in the midst of darkness, and let us surrender the darkness still in us to Christ, that his light would shine forth from within.
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