I Want to Be a Child of Light
My comfort also hinges on the knowledge of how I am to show myself thankful for such deliverance.
The reason is two-fold.
- First, I who have been redeemed by God am required to show my thankfulness to Him
- by walking according to His will.
- God is angry with those who continue to walk in sin.
- I don’t know how to show myself thankful to God for His grace.
- God must teach me what is good and acceptable in His sight.
- I can only have the comfort of knowing that God is pleased with me
- if I know I am walking according to His will.
Second, God promised that I who
have been redeemed from sin through
Christ
- will also produce fruits of thankfulness through the Spirit.
- These two go hand in hand.
- Christ’s work of redemption and the spiritual fruits of thankfulness are inseparable.
- then I have the comfort of knowing with certainty that Christ has redeemed me.
- But I need to know what these fruits of thankfulness are
- so that I can recognize the Spirit’s work in me.
Matthew 5:16
- Let your light so shine before men,
- that they may see your good works
- and glorify your Father in heaven.
- And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,
- but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead,
- and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- For you were once darkness,
- but now you are light in the Lord.
- Walk as children of light
- (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
- finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
- But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
- His own special people,
- that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
- who once were not a people
- but are now the people of God,
- who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
Adapted Excerpt From Van Delden's Only By True Faith
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