How much of what you do has no purpose? How much of it is for good? How much of it is nefarious? Have you spent time to think about what you are doing and how it impacts those around you? Or do you muddle through your day one task at a time without thinking?
Most of us want to think we are working for a reason. Some of us purposely work at jobs to help others. However, even in jobs in which we can help others, we can go through the day without being purposeful. We may simply follow a routine.
We can fall into a routine, a trap of merely existing without realizing it. We can lose focus. We can be lured down a path we had not intended to go down. The slippery slope may start with not turning in a friend for doing something wrong and continue as we slide into deeper and darker works. Our will to resist weakens the further we slide. Not only are these works unfruitful but many of them are very hurtful and dangerous.
Rather than taking part in those works, we are to expose them. We are to see them as God sees them, which can be challenging, for we typically see things as we want to see them. Seeing as God sees requires us to set aside our perspective. It requires us to remove ourselves from the equation. It requires us to spend significant time in prayer. It requires us to spent significant time studying and understanding God’s Word. All of these will ultimately feed into seeing as God sees. Only when we see as God sees can we truly expose the darkness in this world.
I pray we all avoid the trap of routine. I pray we stop our downward slide of participating in unfruitful works. I pray each one of us seeks to open our eyes and see as God sees so we can expose the darkness. Stop your downward slide. See as God sees. Expose the darkness.
Ephesians 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.
Marty Pressey 