Remember Who We Are #22

When you're surround by darkness, it is easy for your eyes, and your heart, to become too adjusted to it. But as followers of Christ, we are called to a higher standard, as Paul points out in I Thessalonians 5:

4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

We are children of Light.  This, of course, coincides with what Jesus said in Matthew 5 - that we are the light of the world.  Who we are makes a big difference, no matter what is going on around us. We are able to see in and through the darkness.  The bigger context of these verses is looking forward to the second coming of Christ, the Light at the end of the tunnel, but that does not mean that is the only place we look. We are very aware of our surroundings - awake and sober.  We walk by faith though surrounded by skeptics; we demonstrate love in a hateful world; we live with hopeful hearts of what God can and will do.