We all need guidance. As children growing up, they seek and need that guidance from their parents. As we continue to get older and begin preparing for our careers, we seek instruction from those that are in the same, profession and teachers to help us be prepared for our job in life.
As a Christian, we need that same light to brighten our path. The light that God shows and gives as a guide in our life will help us be better servants of God and prepare us for the way that God expects from us. His inspired Word (II Timothy 3:16-17) that he has given to all humanity is a lamp to our feet and light to our path (Psalms 119:105).
All people everywhere have sinned (Romans 3:23) and fallen short of the glory of God. Sin has darkened our way separating and alienating ourselves from God (Ephesians 4:18). When we desire sin, we are seeking a dark life a way that keeps us from God and being in His Light. It is our ultimate doom (Romans 6:23).
God has given us the Bible to be a guiding light for us to make ourselves acceptable to His ways and it should be our desire (Romans 12:1-2). Again, as we have pointed out sin has darkened our way with God and has separated us from God.
The word of God is a lamp and a light. It is profitable in many ways for us (II Timothy 3:16-17). It is profitable for doctrine or the teaching that we need that is inspired by God. It is all profitable for reproof or the judgment that we need to judge ourselves by. It is our standard and way of life. The Bible is also profitable correction in how we judge and how we make ourselves right with God. Lastly, the Bible is profitable for instruction in righteousness. It is our duty to please God and be righteous in the eyes of the Lord. It is a guiding light for our path in everyday life. The Bible is perfect completes us as individuals to be servants of God.
It is up to us as individuals to accept the guiding light that God provides and to understand, follow, and obey the things, which God has given to us in this book. We need to leave the darkness of the world (sin) and enter into the Light (newness of light made by God). How do we do this?
Notice what Paul says over in Ephesians 4:17-24. We need to no longer to walk in a sinful way that has darkened our path and separated ourselves from God. We need to realize the dangers of sin and do whatever it takes to enter into the light of God. We need to make a change. It is a word that many do not like to hear. Many do not like to change because many are comfortable and complacent or fine with where they are. This is dangerous because God will not transform us into His light unless we first willingly choose to obey God and His guiding Light that we find through His inspired word (Psalms 119:105; II Timothy 3:16-17). We must leave our old ways that corrupt us as individuals and become transformed in the light of God. It means we need to follow and obey the word of God.
God’s guiding light is everlasting. We can become children of light (Ephesians 5:8). We all at one point were in darkness but God and His light can make us children of light. We can walk a new life that in the end as eternal benefits. The place that God has prepared for those who walk in the light will know the light of God. This place will have no night (Revelation 21:22-27). It is a new place that God has prepared for the children of light. It is an eternal place for those who have obeyed God and followed His guiding light through His inspired word. It is for the faithful and exclusively for those that have their names written in the Book of Life.
We need to ask ourselves how we are taking the guiding light that God has given and provided for us. Are we using the guidance that God has given us and making the change to become a child of light? If the answer is yes we can be a select and chosen one of God. We can be a royal and chosen generation of God. We are called out of the darkness of sin and into the marvelous light of God that has made us new and righteous. If the answer is no we need to ask “why are we waiting?” We need to act now before it is too late (Acts 22:16). We need to be baptized for the remission of our sins (Acts 2:37-38) and become a new being a child of light that can reap the eternal rewards when this life is over. Are you using God’s Guiding Light to make our way pleasing and acceptable to God?
~Daniel Sanders~
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