Ephesians 5:14-16 - Be careful then how you live

5:14

“Anything that becomes visible is light”. What is Paul on about here? I would venture to suggest the following, which ties in with the quotation that follows. Our nature is to hide the dark area of our life. John talks about this in Jn 3:17-21. But if, instead, we admit to our sin, if we rise from the spiritually dead. If we repent and believe, then we receive forgiveness, and the darkness in our lives is turned to light.

5:15,16

So we are to be wise about the way that we live. To walk in darkness is to be unwise, to be foolish. To walk in the light is to be wise. This is then followed by the injunction “making the best use of the time, because the days are evil”. If we live in darkness, blindly following the ways of the world, then we are wasting time. We are allowing people to be captured by the darkness, and denying people the opportunity to come into the light.