Can you recall a significant event that changed many things about you: maybe a natural disaster like a flood that swept away your house, maybe you had a car accident that left you with a limp, or a happier change when you got married? Either way, on the next day you are different and now you must start living life differently. That's how Paul begins our text. "Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light."

He starts off with our profoundly changed situation now that we are in Christ. He says we are light, consistent with our Lord Jesus who called himself the light of the world and said that his followers also were the light of the world. Paul calls us children of light. Light is the essence of our new family. We've been adopted into God's family, an…