Be A Light

William Law

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it and all things new - created upon your account; and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

C.H. Spurgeon  

“Do You Know Him?”

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A man is known by his company; and if you have become acquainted with Christ, and know him, you will be sure to reflect his light. It is because the moon hath converse within the sun, that she hath any light for this dark world’s night; and if you talk with Christ, the Sun, he will shine on you so gloriously, that you. like the moon, shall reflect his light, and the dark night of this world shall be enlightened by your radiance. The Lord help us to know him.

The Treasury of David on Psalm 16

Though you see the stars sometimes by their reflections in a puddle, or in a stinking ditch, yet the stars have their (place) in heaven. Although you see a godly man in a poor, miserable, low, despised condition, for the things of this world, yet he is fixed in heaven. (Ephesians 2:6)

( We can be a light, reflecting God's glory, wherever we are.)

God’s Minute, A Book of 365 Daily Prayers Sixty Seconds Long for Home Worship 

        W.H. Bucks, January 18

May the meditation of our hearts and the utterances of our lips be acceptable in Thy sight. Since each day hath its own peculiar temptations and trials, may we be able this day to cope with all our adversaries and successfully conquer them, leaving our impress for good on all with whom we may come in contact. May we realize this day, as never before, the truthfulness of the promise: “The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (KJV - Proverbs 4:18)

        George Coleman, July 1

We pray that Thou wilt save us all from any pride of spiritual aristocracy, and help us to help each other toward the light. Save us from contempt and bitterness toward those whose eye of faith is not focused like ours, and save those of us who cannot see at all from misjudging those who can see. Thou hast compelled no man to acknowledge Thee, but by Thy good providences and gracious mercies Thou art drawing men unto Thyself. May we, Thy children, go and do likewise; compelling no man, by sneer or by fear, and winning all men by love and by sincerity.  

A.B. Simpson

We are the only light the world has. The Lord could come down Himself and give light to the world, but He has chosen differently. He wants to send it through us, and if we do not give it the world will not have it. We are to be giving light continually wherever we are - at home, among friends or in church. We should have the attitude that we may never have another opportunity, and so we should always be shining for Him.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “The Light of the World” on Matthew 5:14

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We (may speak) in a very enlightened manner, but we have not always lived as the salt of the earth. Whether we like it or not, our lives should always be the first thing to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanour has been a denial of it.

Let us never forget this order deliberately chosen by our Lord; "the salt of the earth" before "the light of the world". We are something before we begin to act as something. The two things should always go together, but the order and sequence should be the one which He sets down here.

The sole cause of the troubles of the world at this moment, from the personal to the international level, is nothing but man's estrangement from God. That is the light which only Christians have, and which they can give to the world. Man has been so made by God that he cannot truly live unless he is in the right relationship to God.

The Christian is here to tell him that there is a way to God, a very simple one. It is to know one Person called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the Son of God and He came from heaven to earth to "seek and to save that which was lost". He came to illumine the darkness, to expose the cause of the darkness, and to make a new and living way out of it all back to God and to heaven. He has not only borne the guilt of this terrible sinfulness that has involved us in such trouble, He offers us new life and a new nature. He does not merely give us new teaching or a new understanding of the problem; He does not merely procure pardon for our past sins; He makes us new men with new desires, new aspirations, a new outlook and a new orientation. But above all He gives us that new life, the life that loves the light and hates the darkness, instead of loving the darkness and hating the light.

John Bonar “The Nature of a Religious Revival” in The Revival of Religion. Addresses by Scottish Evangelical Leaders Delivered in Glasgow in 1840

Where Satan holds his seat most firmly there is most need for the power of Jehovah to be revealed. Where darkness is most visible, there it is most desirable to penetrate with the light of life.

G. Campbell Morgan

Witnesses are everywhere; men and women who know His power; who were fast bound in sin and nature's night, but who awoke as a ray of light came into the dungeon from His presence; whose chains fell off and who went forth to live, serve, and follow Him.

C.S. Lewis “The Four Loves”, 1960

We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

CAUTION

J. R. Miller Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year, 1907

The more light we have the greater is our responsibility and the more will be required of us.