Thoughts on Romans 13:11-14

I was reading this morning and came across something that I thought was very good and so I thought that I would share it.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof (Romans 13:11-14).

When a penitent soul receives Jesus Christ's Light, he must awake and cast off the darkness of fallen Lucifer. That sleep and darkness makes the soul feel disquieted, anxious, to feel weary of life, weary of the LORD's correction, grieved, abhorring God's Governance and Guidance in the situations that He has chosen for it, feeling distressed and vexed over the things that the soul cannot control. We must cast off the darkness and death that prevents us from praising God in all things. We must put on the armour of defensive and protective covering of Christ's Light of Truth; we do this by walking honestly, refraining from those things that are not like the Lord.

The Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon: let us walk in His light that we may be ready for His soon return.