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Today I'm keeping it simple. Breakdown of Scripture. I love how the Word of God can be the best teacher there is...how something you've read over and over can be made new. How your eyes can be opened. How one word makes a difference. 

Ephesians 5:8-10 reads: 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. 

When I think about Ephesians 5, I think about wives submitting to their husbands and husbands loving their wives like Christ loved the church and all that jazz. I never noticed the first half! And then....God :) 

You know how when you read, your brain sometimes inserts words to complete a sentence? Well, when I read those verses quickly, my brain always put in an extra word so I read, "Once you were IN darkness, but now you are IN light." NO. Once we WERE darkness. Not in it. We were IT. We were not just full of yuck, we were yuck. Now we are not IN the light, we ARE the light...in the Lord of course. 

This was an epiphany for me because I have always wanted to be a light for the Lord, but I didn't know what that meant, or how it could be done. And now, thanks to those words, I know. I have a goal :) 

We are light. And this light has fruit. Three fruits. Goodness, righteousness and truth. So to live as children of the light our lives should demonstrate those three things. I can do that. You can do that. They are attainable, just like the fruits of the spirit but these seem easier because there are only three. The one that is different from the fruits of the spirit is truth. This is perhaps the most important to me because I have had a few years that were so full of un-truths and lies that honesty has become something that is on the top of my priority list. I know this "truth" is related to God and who He is, but I would also like people to be able to expect me to be truthful and vice versa :). 

Friends, will you join me on a journey to be light? Not in the light...but to BE light? Let's aim to be good and right and true. Let's aim for that light to be of the Lord. We are darkness no more; we are light. Let us shine. 

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