"And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

                            -Genesis 1:4 

Only four verses into the book of Genesis and we see that it has always been God's will for there to be a distinction between the light and the darkness. Two things so very different cannot coexist, and thus God separated them by creating day and night.

"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."

                            -I Thessalonians 5:5

"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"

                    -Ephesians 5:8

"While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light..." 

                            -John 12:36

Verses such as these clearly convey a similarity  between the things of God, and His children, to light; namely because light exposes what was hidden, just as God's children reveal Christ to the world. However, many people who love to call themselves "the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14), forget the fact that light and darkness must remain separate. They cannot have fellowship one with the other.


No, I'm not trying to say that we should live in a box and hide away from the world. In fact, sometimes we must go into that darkness in order to shine the light where it needs to be shone (it wouldn't do much good to shine a flashlight in lighted room, would it?). But we must remember that we are in the world, not of it. We may not be able to avoid the darkness completely, but we can avoid it's influence if we stay true to God.

"Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils."

                            -I Corinthians 10:21

We cannot associate with darkness unnecessarily and expect not to be impacted by it negatively. God desires a holy people, set apart unto Him!

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,"

                            -II Corinthians 6:14-17