Into the Light

Stirring up what you hate about someone isn’t stirring up the gift God has given you (2 Timothy 1:6-7). Rehearsing your pain, bitterness, and fear isn’t strengthening yourself in the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6). And as much as you might like it to be, snark isn’t one of the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

Anger and self–righteousness don’t qualify you to confront someone. Love and honor for who God has shown you he or she really is does.

You don’t fight the darkness in someone by focusing on it. You can get so obsessed with exposing evil, you become your own self–righteous version of it. You expose and overcome darkness by focusing on the nature and character of Jesus, becoming the light that overwhelms the darkness . . . starting with your old mindset.

“For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true” (Ephesians 5:8-9).