Clarity has come to me recently about the act and power of living in the light.

Let me ask you something:  Did you know technology has the ability to record every key that has ever been pressed on your phone or laptop? Every message ever sent. Every site ever visited. Every photo ever viewed. Everything that has ever been deleted. Algorithms in the camera even have the ability to see where the eye darts on the page, where it lingers, and for how long.

If someone were to run an investigation on your phone, would they find any darkness? Anything worthy of shame?

That’s just technology. Let’s place ourselves before the all-seeing eyes of the Lord who searches the heart and mind. One who sees everything you do, discerns true intentions, reveals counsels of the heart, knows all your thoughts, hears all your words, both the inner dialog and that which you allow to pass through your lips.

Is there any darkness? Anything worthy of shame?

You have an accuser who goes before the Lord day and night in an effort to expose areas of your life that blaspheme the Word of God. Do you have hidden areas that give him legal ground that stand?

You are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses who long to look upon the creation of God, meant to display His glory. In the inner depths of who you are, are you giving them reason to praise our Creator?

Here is the power of the gospel:  We have been delivered from the power of darkness and called into His marvelous light. We were once people who sat in darkness, but The True Light has dawned on us, and we are now light in the Lord.

This is what it means to walk as children of light before man and God:

• Walking with other Christians in close relationship, we live in transparency, fully known, allowing the light of fellowship to expose darkness so we can turn from it. 
• Laying ourselves open before our Creator, we allow His light to pass through our entire being, exposing darkness, so that we can turn from it.

Once there’s nothing to be hidden, we will love this light. (John 3:19)

And a powerful truth: Once we cast off works of darkness, the light we live in becomes an armor. In the Greek this means a weapon used in warfare! (Romans 13:12)

We are called to walk in the light with no cause for stumbling in us.

This is true liberty.

This is true freedom.

This is the salvation He died to give us.

This is peace.