15.15 WALK – Walk as children of light

The next verse exhorts us to walk as children of light. We were once darkness but now we are light in the Lord. So we are to walk in the light of Christ, reflecting Him by bearing fruit of the Spirit.

In the New Covenant of grace, we have no fellowship with darkness. In fact, it is the light of Christ in us that exposes the darkness.

(Ephesians 5:8-14)
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), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

“ Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”


Let me share a very important truth about walking in the light. We cannot walk in light until we have learnt to sit. Most Christians try to walk without sitting. They end up trying to produce light through their self-effort under law.

To sit well, we need to rest in the source of our light. Ephesians 5:14 above says that Jesus gives us light. John 8:12 tells us that Jesus is the source of light – He is the light of the world. We are not the source, but we draw from the source.

(John 8:12)
12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

How do we walk in the light under the New Covenant? We have to draw on the life of Christ. His life is the light of man. When we draw upon Him (sit), we will emanate His light in us and through us. That is why Jesus calls us “the light of the world”. We share the same title that Jesus does.

Remember that in the New Covenant, we are in Christ and He is in us. If we are in the light and the light is in us, we also become the light of the world. The secret is to sit well – do abide in Jesus in order to walk as children of the light.