1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 ESV
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
The separation of light and darkness in mankind began the first day of creation. We can see here what was meant in those first verses of Genesis. The light and darkness of the first day refer to the spiritual state of man. At the end of creation, on the sixth day, man is created in the image of God.
This is happening now as we begin to put on Christ. We are clothed in His body of righteousness and made holy before God as we follow Him in the wilderness of the world. Our sanctification takes place during this journey as He molds and shapes us with the refining fire of the Holy Spirit. He leads by day and by night.
We might look at the wilderness journey of the Israelites as ancient history and it is, but it is something more. It is as fresh as today as that journey is repeated with the body of Christ. We have been called out of the world (Egypt) and are following Christ to the promised land. Our promised land is not on the earth as it is for the Israelites because God is our portion and inheritance.
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