Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁶ Do not let anyone have a chance to deceive you with a false message about those kinds of bad things. God will certainly punish people who do not obey him. ⁷ So keep away from those kinds of people. ⁸ Once your minds were completely in the dark. But now you belong to the Lord. As a result, you have become full of light. So now you must live as people who belong to the light. ⁹ The light helps you to live in a way that is good, right and true. ¹⁰ You should learn more and more to do the things that please the Lord. ¹¹ People whose minds are in the dark do things that have no good purpose. Keep away from wrong things like that. Instead, show how bad those things really are. ¹² People like that should be ashamed of the things that they do secretly. Those things are too bad for us even to talk about. ¹³ But when God's light shines on something, people can see clearly its true nature. ¹⁴ Everything that becomes clear to see is in the light. That is why it says:

¹⁵ So you must be very careful how you live. Live like people who are wise. Do not live like fools. ¹⁶ Many bad things are happening in these days. So, whenever you have a chance to do something good, do as much as you can. ¹⁷ Do not live like fools. But instead, understand what the Lord wants you to do. ¹⁸ Do not drink too much wine so that you become drunk. That will destroy your life. Instead, let God's Spirit fill you. ¹⁹ He will help you to speak to each other with all kinds of spiritual songs. Sing psalms from the Bible, and Christian songs. Praise the Lord with songs from inside yourselves. ²⁰ And always thank God, the Father, for everything, by our Lord Jesus Christ's name.