MY DAILY COVENANT WITH
GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Friday October 9, 2020
Topic: Awake From Sleep
Text: Ephesians 5:12 – 20
As Christians, we should stand for the truth; we shouldn’t get
caught up in gossip about the shameful actions of sinful people (Ephesians 5:12).
We should not promote or dignify sin by even so much as discussing it. What the
ungodly people do in secret becomes clear for how evil it is as light shines on
them. Nothing can hide from the light piercing through darkness. Believers are
the “rays” of that light. By our actions (Ephesians 5:8 – 12), we become
instruments of light, exposing the dark acts of sin.
Apostle Paul instructs us to expose these deeds, because our
silence may be interpreted as approval. God needs people who will take a stand
for what is right. Christians must lovingly speak out for what is true and
right. This is not optional.
It is for this reason the Apostle calls on compromising Christians
to wake up from sleep (Ephesians 5:14) and begin to live for Christ. What Paul
was stressing here is that the Ephesians should wake up and realize the
dangerous condition into which some of them had been slipping into. Are such
things not seen in our present day Christendom where we pretend and are
nonchalant to our call to rebuke evil and sin? Are we not unperturbed and
senseless in the darkness, and pollution of sin, and sometimes rename sin so as
to cover our unrighteousness?
We should wake from death in sin to a sense of our guilty, lost
condition, and look to Him who died for us, and He will make us light. We
should redeem the time we have lost while asleep by being active for God. God
is waiting for you to act. Start now (Isaiah 60:1)!
Food for Thought: Romans 13:11 & 12
Memory verse: Ephesians 5 v 14
Prayer: Almighty God, give us grace to cast way the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility so that on the last day, when He shall come again in His glorious majesty: to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through Him who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever (Collect for Advent Sunday).
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