"...For it is Light that Makes Everthing Visible."

When I was in high school and college I was an avid spelunker. (cave explorer)  If you have ever been deep in a cave beyond the mouth of the cavern...you know what darkness is.  Wow... it is really dark in a cave...so dark...it can't get darker. It is scary...you lose a lot of control because you can't see a thing.  The most important lesson of caving is to always have 3 sources of light.  We always carried a flashlight, a carbide lamp and matches & candles. We took light... into a very dark place.

This is exactly what Paul is telling us to do in Ephesians  5:8  " ...but now you are light in the Lord."  Paul is finishing up this dialogue on being "children of light" that he started in chapter 4.   Basically, Paul is surmising that we live in a world full of darkness.  And what is darkness? Deeds of sexual immorality, greed, foolish talk, course joking, bitterness, rage, brawling, stealing and many more...make up "darkness".

When we love others like Christ loved us...we are being light in this dark world. 

When a person is trapped in a dark place...it is a desperate existence without light...until someone is able to illuminate their world with light.   There is a world of people in darkness needing "Jesus"..the Light of the World. We must live as "children of light".