Tiny Little Things

When I was a kid, every time I went out to play without my parents or any teachers around me I’d ask myself, “Can I do this? Can I choose that? Can I say this?” Then I grew up a little older and had consciousness about future, my question changed, “Will this be considered as sin if I do this or that?”

Then there were times when I carelessly thought that all those stuff are strangling me, “I’ll just live well and avoid troubles, then I’d be fine.” As I grew older, I began to make excuse of those little sins inside me in the name of curiosity. But that didn’t stay long, not until I realized that what I did was a work of darkness.

The Bible tells us in Ephesians 5:8, “For at one time you were darkness,” that’s it! It might have been just inside my head and heart, unseen and unheard, but those all resided in the dark. It was all dark, done silently, said quietly, and I’d be ashamed if those things were put in the light. Yes, all things we love to do it in the shadows that would make us be ashamed if those things were laid out in the light of day, those all are the work of the dark.

The darkness indeed covers the earth, and we who are walking in our journey of life are walking in the darkness of the world. But Jesus has come and His glory shines upon me, why would I still want to continue walking in the darkness of the world? “…But now you are light in the Lord,” the Bible says, “Walk as children of light.” For that reason, our question should no longer be, “Will this be sin if I do this or say that?” But, “Is this a way of how children of light walk?”

“For the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true,” noted in Ephesians 5:9, and on the next verse, “Try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.” Will what I think, feel, and do please the Lord?