SEPARATION OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS

SEPARATION OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS: Devotion for Saturday March 14, 2015

Text: Genesis 1:1 – 4                                              Memory verse: 4

In spiritual terms, light represents anything good, righteous and godly while darkness represents everything evil, bad, vices and ungodly. At creation, God separated light from darkness because two of them staying together will amount to confusion on earth. He had to separate them so that we can learn different life lessons from them. Light has its place as well as darkness in shaping us into what we will become in eternity.

What God did in separating light from darkness has some lessons of life to teach us. It teaches us that we have, as part of our lives, good and bad which confronts us on daily basis as we have light and darkness as part of our daily life. God separated light from darkness, because with them, he would daily remind us that this is a world of mixtures and changes. This separation is also a reminder for us that when we transit from this earth, those who did good and evil doers can never stay together. There will be a separation. Those who did well in this life will enter into the light of God and those who did evil will enter into the outer darkness where there will be gnashing of teeth (Matthew 22:13). Does the life you live represent light (Matthew 5:14 – 16) or darkness? Where do you belong? See 1 Peter 2:9.

Food for Thought: John 12:46

Prayer: Lord, help me to shine always as light and not darkness to my world.