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📖 Bible Meditation
No. 1812
🔆 AATHAVAN –
Friday, 23.01.2026
“For this reason, it says, ‘Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’” (Ephesians 5:14)
To live without any interest in spiritual life, without a desire to know God, and to feel satisfied merely by participating in empty ritualistic forms of worship is comparable to being asleep. Not only that—it is nothing less than death in the spiritual life.
Today, many people in the world live without any desire to know God or to seek Him. They participate in worship services only to meet their worldly needs, offer prayers for their own purposes, and live with a sense of satisfaction because of that alone. Therefore, there is no light at all in their hearts. The Bible describes such people as those who are asleep—or even dead.
Those of us who say that we worship Christ should not live as people who have lost their light. That is why the apostle Paul says, “For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do but let us be alert and sober.” (1 Thessalonians 5:5–6)
Those who do not know Christ in their lives remain in this kind of spiritual sleep. Therefore, Paul exhorts us not to sleep as others do, but to be alert and sober. Only when we remain awake in this way can Christ shine upon us.
We read that people who did not know the Lord Jesus Christ were living in darkness, and that when Christ came into the world, they saw the light: “The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, and those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a Light dawned.” (Matthew 4:16)
Yes, Christ—the true Light—shone upon people who were surrounded by darkness and the shadow of death. Indeed, “There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.” (John 1:9)
When we are illuminated by Christ, it does not mean that we will shine like an electric bulb or a candle. Rather, it means that our actions and way of life will be transformed. The wicked and sinful traits that characterized us before knowing Christ will change, and we will become people who do good before others, living lives that bear witness to Christ.
Yes, beloved, God desires that we become people who give light to the world, just as Christ does. For that to happen, we must first awaken from our spiritual sleep. We must rise up from among those who are spiritually dead and who do not know Christ and become distinct and different. Then Christ will shine upon us, and we too will live lives that bear true testimony.
God’s Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash

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