The other day (Oct. 24: The Unrighteous) I talked about how God loves us for ourselves, but not always for what we do or how we act. Today, as I finished studying the first part of Ephesians 5, I was reminded that we are to walk not only in love, but in the light. And the light is Jesus. We are to be fragrant imitators of God, a pleasant aroma. We can not be if we continue to walk in the ways of our past. For when we become children of God, our old way is washed away and we become new.
Verses 8-12 say:
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth), proving what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret."
If you do not believe this and persist in living in your old ways, then it is reasonable to question whether you really are a child of God. According to Ephesians 4:22-24: "that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness."
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