Is Your Light Shining?

Matthew 5:14-16
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither 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. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

Is Your Light Shining?

We need to take just a moment to think about the implication of this scripture that Jesus has spoken to us as His believers and followers. Think about how this relates to what Jesus said in John 8:12, “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Again He speaks in John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Is Christ in the earth today? If He no longer walks the earth as the physical man Jesus, then what form has He taken? If we are the light of the world then the light and the life of Christ now abides in us, His body. His light and life is now manifested through us, His people who are called by His name. 1 Peter 1:23 says, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” This is us in Christ. When we were born again we took on a new blood line, a new genealogy, an incorruptible inheritance. We became a new creation and creature in Christ Jesus. Now our bread is not in the natural, but it is in doing the will of the Father. The food that we seek is His flesh and His blood. That flesh and that blood are His Word and His Life. John 1:1-5 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” He is now the impartation of His Word through us. If we are what eat, then we had better be eating of the right food and of the right tree. He is the tree of Life and as such we are the branches of that vine and we receive our life from its roots. Our fruit is based upon where we are getting our life from. We will bear fruit after our own kind. Our kind, as believers, is Christ. That is why we are light bearers and the light of the world. We possess and bear the most precious gift, life and light ever bestowed upon mankind. We should never be ashamed or timid concerning what we possess. We possess the life of God that every man should covet and desire.
Today is your day to go out and light up your world. Never be ashamed of who you are. Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” The apostle Paul declares in 2 Timothy 1:8-12 what should also be in our hearts, “8So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, 9who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.” It is to our much greater shame if we deny who we are in Christ and hide the light that He has imparted to us. 1 John 2:28 leaves us with this thought, “And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.” Let us be the manifestation of all that He has called us to be. That can take on many forms of expression, but allow yourself to be the expression of Him that He has made you to be, however simple that may be. “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

Blessings,
#kent

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