Go light your world.

“I am the light of the world, whoever follows me WILL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, but will have the LIGHT OF LIFE.” (John 8:12). 

To burn brightly, we must first experience the flame.

Believers of who Jesus Christ really is: we need to look different than the rest of the world, “that [we] may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9).  

We should shine the light, the light that should be burning brightly in our souls, illuminating the dark by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Just love, don’t judge, leave those things to Jesus. He’s the flame that lights, and convicts the heart.

Look how a single lit candle can light up a whole dark room. The Spirit who brings the fire to our soul is Jesus Christ. He wants to make His home in all of us. Jesus tells us in John 3: 5-7, “You must be born again.” When Jesus died, and then ascended into heaven, only His physical presence left the earth, but He promised us the gift of the Holy Spirit - His presence living in us to shine brightly into the darkness. Some of us are brightly burning, some are dark and cold.

One of my favorite verses in John 3:16-18 is, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned...”  I love that! He loved me right where I was at. So don’t point at what people are doing wrong, point to Jesus who makes us right.

That’s what we as believers should be sharing. Running with our candle to the hopeless, lost, confused and torn. Jesus Christ is the flame that lights our souls'  candle. We need to share with others, and confused believers, to keep their eyes on Jesus, because we are all an ongoing work in progress. Christians are just sinners who fall down, and usually get up changed.

This world is darkened by sin. It is destroying the good God intends for people. All we can do as believers is hold out our candle, and ask God to lead us. For us to burn brightly, and not dark and cold, we have to ask God to search our hearts and thoughts.  "Search me, God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139: 23-24).    

Share who Jesus is to you and leave the rest up to Him.

Go and light this world

Kim