Turn from Darkness to Light
In Acts 26:18 Paul testified that God’s commission to him was “to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.”
Our commission, like that of Paul’s, is to turn people from darkness to light. Since God Himself is the light of the holy city, there will be no need for any God-created or man-created light (Rev. 22:5). This indicates that we need to be careful not to bring any artificial, man-created light into what we minister to the Lord’s children. This so-called light is something apart from the Lord that is merely from our natural ability in understanding and realizing things…..Instead we need a spirit of wisdom and revelation, that the eyes of our heart would be enlightened with the divine light (Eph. 1:17-18). Then we should purely minister God as light into others (1 John 1:5).*
We can pray, as Paul prayed for us in Ephesians 1, to receive a spirit of wisdom and revelation that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened. For this we need a pure heart to receive the divine light. Lord, purify my heart so that I may receive Your enlightening day by day.
The Lord desires to shine in us now to cleanse and purify us for our current shining to testify Him and in preparation for the pureness and transparency of New Jerusalem.
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* From page 37 of Ed Marks, The New Jerusalem—A Corporate Person, Affirmation & Critique Monograph, A&C Press, © Living Stream Ministry (2025).
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Posted by Don on July 17, 2026
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