September 21: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
Devotion:
Have you ever tried to wash in dirty water? As long as you are more dirty than the water you are going to have some sort of success but you will not be able to get as clean as you might want to. Now we don’t have that problem with Christ covering our sins because He was the perfect sacrifice and is able to cover all of our sins; which means we get washed cleaner than anything!
Does this mean we can go out and ‘play in the mud’ as much as we like because we know we will get washed clean of our sins? Certainly not! God wants us to live a changed life with Christ at the centre and that life should be seen as cleaner than the lives of everyone around us – how will we be able to persuade people to change if we are not different!
The more we play around with sins in our lives the more we get used to being in a sinful way and the less we think about how God wants us to be. We don’t have to worry about being able to be clean before God because our sins are covered by Christ’s blood, but we should not go out seeking sins just because we know we will be forgiven.
People of this world will not see the need to be different because they would rather fit in with everyone else – that does not make what they are doing right! God has allowed us to see the difference between our old sinful selves and the new children of God we are now. We must embrace this difference and allow it to be a beacon whereby others may be encouraged to find out why!
Points to Ponder:
How often do you need to ask God to forgive you?
Will you try to live a different life for Christ?