Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled Live Like It's Morning was written by Glenn Packiam.

When I have to travel across time zones by air, I try various remedies to avoid jet lag. I think I've tried

them all. On one occasion, I decided to adjust my in-flight eating to the time zone where I was

heading. Instead of eating dinner with the rest of the passengers, I kept watching a movie and tried to fall

asleep. The hours of elective fasting were difficult, and the breakfast that came right

before we landed left much to be desired. But living out of sorts with those around me

worked. It jolted my body clock into a new time zone. Paul knew that if believers in Jesus

were to truly reflect him in their lives, they would

need to live out of step with the world around them.

They were once darkness, but now they were to live as children of light, as it says in

Ephesians 5.8.

And what might that look like?

Paul goes on to fill out the picture in Ephesians 5.9, the fruit of the light consists

in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Sleeping through dinner may have seemed foolish to the

people on my flight, but even as it's midnight in the world, as believers, we're called to live

like it's morning. This may provoke scorn and opposition, but in Jesus, we can walk in the way of love,

following the example of the one who loves us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Ephesians Chapter 5,

verses 1 through 9.

Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

But among you, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality or of any kind of impurity

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