“But you are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
God’s special
possession, that you may declare the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
I Peter 2:9
Darkness
conceals but light reveals.
We are not
called to be children of darkness but rather children of the light.
The Light of
Christ reveals who He is to a world stumbling in darkness.
But the Light of
Christ also reveals who we are in Him.
Our hearts,
which were once in darkness, now have His light shining in them.
This light
reveals the Glory of God through Jesus Christ.
“For God, who
said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to
give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of
Christ.”
II Corinthians
4:6
We are called to
no longer walk in darkness but in the light of His love.
As we do, His
light in us shines out to others still in darkness.
We are the Light
of the World as we allow Christ to shine through us.
The source of
the light in us is not our piety, religiousness or good works.
It is Christ in
us.
That
understanding allows me to boldly, yet humbly, declare the greatness of His
light.
Any credit or
praise I take for myself is unseemly because He is the source of that light.
As a matter of
fact when I attempt to take His glory to myself I no longer walk in the Light.
Instead I
stumble around in the darkness of self-centeredness and pride rather than the light
of Christ centeredness!
Allow the light
of Christ to shine through you to others.
As it does, it
will point men and woman to Him.
Darkness
conceals but light reveals.
In Him there is
no darkness at all!
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