You...Are My Lamp

2 Samuel 22:24-29 – I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight. “To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd. You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low. You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light.

Ephesians 1:4-6 – For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Psalm 131:1 – My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

Psalm 27:1 – The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?

Application:

• ·         Holiness is the result—not the basis—of God’s choosing.
• ·         Pride in humanity’s presumed ability to master the whole creation, design its own moral world and control its own destiny is that which, more than all else, alienates humans from God.
• ·         To say “The Lord is my light” is to confess confidence in Him as the source of well-being or life and salvation.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV