ephesians five eight

“The Light of the Gospel is intense, it has no respect for darkness…As such, it can be either astoundingly beautiful or extremely and personally offensive. If we have been built and clothed ourselves with any sort of glory (reputation) on the branches of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, the Gospel will confront that reputation with the full weight of Truth in revealing it’s hypocrisy and falseness, and it will strip the leaves off, leaving one naked without that ‘reputation’….

The awesome beauty of the Gospel is that it does not leave one standing naked without covering, because that same Light that reveals the false reputation, also covers us with the true reputation of Man….

How does Light both reveal and cover?

Light reveals or uncovers lies, however, it also enables discovery of who we really are by revealing our true selves hidden deep inside us, where we see that His reputation (glory, opinion) is also ours, and the knowledge of this glory comes without effort, because this same Light that reveals the false coverings, also reveals the True Kernel within….and the knowledge of this True Kernel, this ‘being’ which we are, is what allows us to stand naked and unashamed, clothed only in the Light that bathes us with the glorious Truth of His good estimate and opinion of who we are…like Him…”

Colin Lagerwall

Ephesians 5:8 (AMP)

"For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].”

1 Peter 2:9

^“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

James 1:17 (ESV)

^“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”

Revelation 21:23 (ESV)

^“And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.”

Revelation 22:5 (ESV)

^“And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.”