Happy Friday

Thought for Today

"Someone who sees grace as permission to sin has missed grace entirely. Mercy understood is holiness desired." - Max Lucado


First Words - First Light
Rev. Kerry S. Doyal [Edited]

How fitting. God's first recorded words in the Holy Scriptures are: "Let there be light" (Gen. 1:3). As we embark on a New Year, we do well to turn to the light, let our light shine, walk in the light and worship Him who is the light.

Let us, in concerted effort with and in subordination to God, work to dispel darkness and disperse light. God saw & still sees light as good. Fellowship with Him - who is the light - separates us from darkness. On this new day of a new creation of a new year, let us purpose to be people of light.

Genesis 1:3-5 (NIV): "And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day."

Ephesians 5:8 (NIV): "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

See John 1:1-10; Ephesians 4:17-24; 5:8-14; Matthew 5:13-16; 1 John 1:4-10