13:11
“Besides this ...” The way we behave is linked to our eschatology, i.e. where everything is ultimately headed. We know that the world was created by God, that we belong to Him, that He is the judge, and that one day He will return to judge the whole earth. It is God who we need to answer to, and it is He who decides our destiny. Most of the world is asleep, it lives in ignorance of how the world really works, in ignorance of God. We need to wake up, we need to live our lives in light of the truth. And our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
13:12
Paul lapses into quite poetic language. “The night is far gone, the day is at hand”. The days of this world order are almost over. Now this has to be looked at in an eternal perspective, for Paul wrote this almost two thousand years ago. Having an eternal perspective is vital if we are to have a proper view of life. This is not pie in the sky when you die, having an eternal perspective affects how we live now. So we are to rid ourselves of the works of darkness, living out of selfishness, out of rebellion. Instead we are to put on the armour of light. We live life God’s way, and this is actually a more powerful way of living.
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