"You are the light of the world….Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matt. 5:14a, 16 NKJV)
My husband and I had an intriguing experience with one of our specialty paints- Glow-in-the-dark. The paint is used to create special effects; making printed inscriptions to glow in the dark. We had a small jar of this paint and it always glowed in the store where we keep our paints. One day we opened the store and found that the jar of GITD paint had stopped glowing. We were initially worried; the paint couldn’t have expired.
Suddenly, my husband figured it out and said “I think it first absorbs light before it can glow in the dark and apparently it has dissipated all the stored energy”. It made sense but we had to experiment to be sure. We put the paint out in the light for a while and brought it back into the dark store. This time, it shone so bright that it literally lit up the room. Wow!
Christians, you and I are just like that paint. We can only glow in the dark when we have absorbed enough light by fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit Who is our source of Light. Also when we continue to stay in the dark for too long, no matter how much stored energy we had, we’ll soon burn ourselves out.
We store up our light deposit by studying and meditating on the Word of God. We are called to glow in the darkness of our world but if we do not recharge our spiritual batteries, we’ll soon become like every other opaque paint that we had in our store.
...that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, (Phil. 2:15 NKJV).
Action Point
Get the light that empowers you to glow so that men can see your good works and glorify your Father!
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