Marvellous Light
Matthew 5:14-15
You are the light to the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
often in a world that's so caught up in it's ideals and grand schemes it's hard to think of it as 'dark'. We're all just trying hard to do what's 'right', right? And yet it's this concept that we can do it on our own and get there by our own means that's just a shadow of the real problem.
We are steeped in darkness and so lost that we don't know it. In a world that sees immorality and condones it, we have indeed lost our ability to judge right from wrong. How then do we get out of it?
But like in Matthew 4:15-16, where the people of the area were living in darkness, when Jesus went there to preach, they were witnesses to His great light. The light of His word, His commands and His teachings.
Likewise we as christians, are witnesses to His light... and we can't hide this to ourselves, we have to shine brightly, by living the way Christ told us to. To shun the ways of the world, to 'not store up for ourselves, treasure on earth', but treasures in heaven instead! (Matthew 6:19-24).
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
But we don't do this to bring praise to ourselves but to point those honours back to God! Our bodies are but weak and vulnerable 'vessels' of God's light, (2Cor 4:4-7) jars of clay, containing a most wonderful treasure... a tremendously valuable commission given us by God to spread His message of love and peace to all those around us.
But we know that the world does not love this message that we have to tell them. And when others see us living 'goody-two-shoe' lives, they will be resentful and will try to engulf the light that is in us.
Indeed 'the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it' (John 1:5). Neither has the darkness overcome it!
We serve a master far greater than the master of this world. And therefore we should live lives worthy of Christ, shining boldly in the darkness!
You are the light to the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
often in a world that's so caught up in it's ideals and grand schemes it's hard to think of it as 'dark'. We're all just trying hard to do what's 'right', right? And yet it's this concept that we can do it on our own and get there by our own means that's just a shadow of the real problem.
We are steeped in darkness and so lost that we don't know it. In a world that sees immorality and condones it, we have indeed lost our ability to judge right from wrong. How then do we get out of it?
But like in Matthew 4:15-16, where the people of the area were living in darkness, when Jesus went there to preach, they were witnesses to His great light. The light of His word, His commands and His teachings.
Likewise we as christians, are witnesses to His light... and we can't hide this to ourselves, we have to shine brightly, by living the way Christ told us to. To shun the ways of the world, to 'not store up for ourselves, treasure on earth', but treasures in heaven instead! (Matthew 6:19-24).
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
But we don't do this to bring praise to ourselves but to point those honours back to God! Our bodies are but weak and vulnerable 'vessels' of God's light, (2Cor 4:4-7) jars of clay, containing a most wonderful treasure... a tremendously valuable commission given us by God to spread His message of love and peace to all those around us.
But we know that the world does not love this message that we have to tell them. And when others see us living 'goody-two-shoe' lives, they will be resentful and will try to engulf the light that is in us.
Indeed 'the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it' (John 1:5). Neither has the darkness overcome it!
We serve a master far greater than the master of this world. And therefore we should live lives worthy of Christ, shining boldly in the darkness!
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