Seize the Moment – Day 253
Be a Wake-up Call!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, November 25.
Have you ever been asleep and someone turns on the light in the room? It definitely wakes you up!
Paul teaches us in Ephesians 5:8-14, “For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. This is why it is said, ‘Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’”
Darkness is a lack of the true substance—light! Before Christ, we all were darkness. The Bible teaches us that before Jesus we were cut off from God—literally “dead in [our] transgressions”, but in Jesus we are the light of the world because we are now “alive with Christ” (Ephesians 2:4, 5).
Thank you Jesus for loving us so much that He would take our death (our darkness) for us so that we can share in His life (His light)—we are now the light to the world only because He is the light of the world (Matthew 5:14-16)! He is alive in us. We have gone from death to life!
Just like when the light is turned on in that dark room and you go from being asleep to suddenly awake, Christians are saved to be a wake up call to the world proclaiming, “wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Seize the moment and be a wake-up call to all you encounter! Shine!
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