Purity Foundation Daily Devotional Friday 13th June 2025 Topic: Awakening To Purpose 13 - What Time It Is? 2 Text: Romans 13:12-13

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Purity Foundation Daily Devotional 
Friday 13th June 2025 
Topic: Awakening To Purpose 13 - What Time It Is? 2 
Text: Romans 13:12-13  
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying."

Reflection: 
Put off, the deeds of darkness.
There are three "categories" of improper "walking" that Paul mentions in this verse. I believe you could consider them examples of the "works of darkness" he spoke of in the previous verse.

A first category is what we might call "the partying spirit". Paul says that behaving as "in the day" means we're not to be walking "in revelry and drunkenness". We're not to be given to "wild" behavior. We're not to allow our behavior to be influenced by drugs or alcohol. We're not to be "party animals" like the lost people who try to fill the gnawing void in their soul with artificial, sinful "good times".

A second category is "sensuality". Behaving "in the day" means not walking "in lewdness and lust" - that is, in sexual promiscuity and sensual pleasures. We're not to gratify physical lusts. We're not to sleep with people who are not our spouses. We're not to lust after the sensual images that are shown on television, or movies, or in magazines, or over the internet.

Finally, a third category what we might call "selfish hostility". Paul says that behaving as "in the day" means not walking in "strife and envy". We're not to be back-biters. We're not to be gossip-mongers. We're not to hold resentment or unforgiveness toward others. We're not to hold others in contempt.
Knowing the time requires that we lay aside the deeds of darkness. You cannot continue in sin and selfishness if you wear the armor of the faith. Faith in God is incompatible with greed. Love for God and for one another is incompatible with gossip. Faithfulness is incompatible with deceit. And trust in God is incompatible with worry and fear. You tend to do one thing or the other. You lay aside the works of darkness, or you cannot put on the armor of light. If you know what time it is in the history of salvation and of the Church, you put on the armor of the Gospel. It’s like taking off your pajamas in the morning and putting on fresh clothes before you go to work.

Prayer: 
Father, please help me to Put off, the deeds of darkness in my life in Jesus Name 

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