WEEK 33 – DAY 3

RAYS OF LIGHT

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. Ephesians 5:8-10

Children often draw the sun as a round ball with pointed rays extending outward from it. At first these rays are just lines, but as the artist matures they become angles of varying length. The sun is usually smiling at us from a corner of the paper. Jesus, the Son, who is referred to as “the Light” several times in John 1, tells his followers, “You are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5:14a) Picture Jesus as that smiling round sun and his followers as the rays of light extended from Him. We receive our goodness, righteousness, and truth from our light source – Jesus. Without his power, we are unable to manifest any of those three attributes. When we do exhibit them, we are simply allowing His light to shine through us and extend to those around us. When I was a little girl, I loved to sing, “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam to shine for Him each day.” Perhaps the writer of that song had this passage in mind. I don’t know. But I do know that Jesus still wants me to shine and that I can only radiate his love when I am controlled by his Spirit.

Father, let your goodness, righteousness, and truth shine in our lives today. Help us to put aside those attitudes and actions that would hide Your light and become a Son-ray that lights the path for others to come to You.