As we near the end of our week on honesty, today we're going to discover together how

there is freedom in the light.

Any part of our lives in which we're walking in darkness, living isolated and unknown,

make space for our hearts to be chained to thoughts and temptations God wants

to set us free from. So may the spirit lead us into the light today. And may we find courage

to follow him. And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know. In paths they have not known, I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know.

In paths they have not known.

I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light,

the rough places, into level ground.

These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.

Isaiah 42. 16.

The imagery of light and darkness is used throughout Scripture as a metaphor for freedom

and sin, and God, and that which is without God. Jesus constantly refers to himself as

light. In reference to Jesus, Matthew 416 says,

The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light. And for those dwelling in the region

and shadow of death, on them, a light has dawned. Scripture also refers to us as the light in

Ephesians 5.8, saying, for at one time you were darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord. And in John 3 19 through 21, Jesus describes a freedom that

comes from bringing ourselves to the light. And this is the judgment. The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because

their works were evil.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest

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