Let Your Light Shine

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:16)

"Good works" are more than actions. Good works are acts of obedience. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your acts of obedience and glorify your Father in heaven. One of our first acts of obedience must be to repent of our sins and receive Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." (John 6:28-29)

Another act of obedience is to be the witness that God calls us to be.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (Acts 1:8)

Witnesses are sworn to tell the truth, and they are obligated to TESTIFY! We must testify, and that obligates us to speak up!

There is a sense in which God is on trial in the world every day. There are plenty of those that think of Him, or even accuse Him of beign uncaring, distant, and cold. Those of us that know differently have been called on to testify on His behalf. Not because of the consequences that God must face, but of the consequences that the unrepentant must face.

Let your light be the light of the Spirit and truth of God. Shine brightly til Jesus comes, and may many find their way in the darkness to salvation and new life in Christ because of your light.

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.