Children of Light

Our home decked in lights

Today’s verse: “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.” Ephesians 5:8-9

One of the things I love most about Christmas, besides celebrating the birth of Christ of course, is all the lights. I love them on my Christmas tree, and I love them all over the outside my house. I love driving around and seeing all the lights. Lights, lights, lights…there can’t be enough lights!

Lights dispel the gloom of darkness in this cold season with short days. The lights fill us with hope and joy during this festive season. The lights beautify and brighten everything they come in contact with.

When I look at the lights all around me, I am reminded that Jesus is the true light of the world. He dispels the darkness and fills us with hope, peace, and truth. And when Jesus lives in us, we can live as children of light, showing Christ to the world around us. I pray that my children will always live as children of light.

I pray that they shine light…

• to the lonely kids at school
• to their teachers
• to their hurting friends
• to the poor and needy
• to our neighbors
• to those who don’t yet know Jesus
  

It reminds me of an old children’s Sunday school song…

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine
Let it shine, Let it shine,
Let it shine

Lord, you are the light of the world. Thank you for dispelling darkness, bringing hope, and filling us with truth and love. Your light lives in us, and in turn we can shine your light to others. Lord, may my kids live as children of light, and have lives that consist of goodness, righteousness and truth. Use my kids to be light in a world that desperately needs you. Teach them to shine your light to the lonely, hurting, angry, unloved, and may not know the hope you have to offer. I pray that they find the tenacity to let their light shine before men, in all that they say and do, and through all the days of their lives. Thank you, Jesus, for being our light, and the light of the world!