Seize the day - light.
Carpe diem. Is it time to
seize the daylight?
Now it is time to daylight
savings time. Did you change your
clocks? Did you wake up on time?
It is time to wake up and enjoy the snow and the extra hours of
daylight. Daylight savings time
ought to be a way of life for the believers in Christ.
A new medical study has just discovered that Americans don’t get the
required 8 hours of sleep that is necessary for the body to have good health.
I believe we need a new spiritual study to show how much of our
spiritual health is effected by too much spiritual sleep in the darkness.
We need to wake up the spiritual light of God and get with it.
When Christ arose from the dead, He got up at first light.
Why? First light of the
third day meant that he had fulfilled His time in the darkness of death for
you and me. Those women of God
who went to the tomb went at first light because the Sabbath of rest was over
and now it was time to get up and go to work in the light.
The darkness had passed and now it was time to enjoy the light of God.
Will we seize the daylight and take advantage of the time that we have
to be who God wants us to be? Seize
the day and take advantage of the time we have.
Why? Because it won’t
last forever.
Scripture
Text:
Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the
Lord. Live as children of light
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(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
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and find out what pleases the Lord.
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Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose
them.
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For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
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But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
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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."
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Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise,
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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Nicodemus came in the dark.
Jesus seized the daylight. Judas
betrayed at night. Peter denied
the Lord by the light of the campfire. John
stood in the light at the foot of the cross.
Lazarus was called to come out of the dark of the tomb.
Have you seized the daylight?
You can come from Darkness to the Light of Christ.
It is a spiritual light.
1.
Once Darkness. You are
dark until...
Living
in the dark. Can’t see the
light. Don’t have a future,
because you can’t see where you are going.
Don’t know which way to turn. Have
no hope. We are living darkness
without the Lord of light living in our hearts.
Don’t understand God’s will and don’t care.
You were unwise with no future, no hope, no help, no security, no
peace, vulnerable. Used to the
dark because it is natural born in the dark.
Live in the dark. No life.
Fatalists. Who say live now
because we will die. Buried alive
in a tomb awaiting death. Pretend
it doesn’t matter. Deceived
into believing it doesn’t matter that you know you are going to die.
You are dark on the inside can only think about you. Walking dead in sins. Our
lives were characterized by the fruitless deeds of darkness and shameful acts
done in secret. Foolish man built
his house on the sand. These are
careless people living in a whatever attitude.
Living to please self only.
2.
Now light.
Someone
has turned on the light in our lives. Live
as light in the Lord. Live as
children of light. See the fruit
of the light. Goodness and
righteousness, and truth. Find
out what pleases the Lord. Avoid
fruitless actions of dark. But
expose them. Show them light. Jesus
is the light of the world Living carefully.
Make the most of every chance. Wise
man built his house on the Rock. Heis
light. He is our example of light
Living in dark . He made a
difference . Do we bear fruit of
light.? Living to please God.
3.
What happened to make a change! The
light was turned on.
Someone woke up.
Jesus woke up. Someone
heard the alarm and got up. They
didn’t continue to lie there.
Wake up – O sleeper.
Get up before it is too late. Rise
from the dead. Christ has shone
on them . Lazarus woke up.
Jonah got out. Jesus is alive. The
disciples came out. They decided
to hear the alarm and get up.
Now they are the light.
No longer are they darkness. They
are making a difference in bearing the fruit of the light.
Will you wake up? If you have then will you live as light in the world?
Seize the daylight and give
yourself to the Lord before it is too late.
Now is the time. Today is
the day of salvation. Will you
take advantage of the time you have been given?