DEVOTIONAL BY BILLY GRAHAM – HOPE FOR EACH DAY

Children of Light

You, brethren, are not in darkness…. You are all sons of light. – 1 THESSALONIANS 5:4-5

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred, confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. His eyes have been opened to spiritual truth.

In Christ’s first sermon at Nazareth He said that one of the reasons He had come to earth was to preach “recovery of sight to the blind” (Luke 4:18). By nature we are all spiritually blind because of sin. But the Spirit of God helps us see our sin and our helplessness and shows us God’s redeeming grace in Christ. The Spirit reveals the truth of Jesus’ declaration: “I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12).

In the Bible we…