COMMANDED TO SHINE
Memorise: let your light
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Light and darkness are antithetical. While light is
welcome by everyone, darkness is shunned and rejected. Light is an illuminating
agent. It affects everything and without it, there will be no life. Light is
mostly used when referring to goodness and godliness. 1 John 1:5 reveals to us
that God is light. This means whoever is born of God is light. This means
whoever is born of God must reflect the attributes which believers should
endeavour to reflect. One of such attributes is the wave. Simply put, a wave is
a disturbance. Whoever is born of God is light, and because light has the
nature of a wave, his or her life must be a disturbance to the works of
darkness everywhere. Acts 4:15-17 is a classical example of a situation where
believers reflected this attribute of light. Are you born of God? Then your
life should challenge both the works and the workers of darkness. Another
attribute of light is force. Light as a force causes movement or change.
Everyone that is born of God is expected to shine by provoking positive change
and movement to the glory of God. You are expected to be a strong force of
progress in your home, family, community, society, place of work, church and
nation.
There is no denying the fact that light is life. Light
is life to both plants and animals. While animals rely on plants and
(sometimes) other animals for existence, green plants turn carbon dioxide and
water into food using energy obtained from the light radiating from the sun.
This process is known in biology as photosynthesis. Every child of God should
radiate light and life, because in Jesus is life which is the light of men.
John 1:4 says
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
As a Christian, you have life, and this life is
eternal. Moreover, this life is capable of making all impossibilities become
possible. Going through Luke 10:19, we can deduce that light is power. Are you
born of God? Rejoice! In you resides the power that upholds all things (Hebrews
1:3). You have been empowered by God to do the unimaginable for him. I pray
that no sickness, darkness or evil shall rule over you. Light reveals.
Implicitly, light reveals specific information about a matter. The good news is
that you should no longer operate in ignorance, because light exposes hidden
things (Ephesians 5:13). Finally, light travels in a straight line. This
denotes integrity, faithfulness and trustworthiness. If we operate as light, we
will not be perverse or crooked in our ways.
Prayer Point
Father, help me always
reflect all the attribute of light.
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