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Let Your Light Shine, April 25
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16
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To every soul born into Christ’s kingdom is given a solemn charge, Let your
light so shine before men that they, by seeing your good works, shall glorify your
Father which is in heaven. Pour forth upon your neighbors the rich rays of light
received from the Sun of Righteousness; flash upon your friends in the world the
bright gems of light and truth imparted to you abundantly from the throne of God.
This is trading upon the talents entrusted. Go on from light to a greater light,
catching more and more the bright beams from the Sun of Righteousness, and
shine more and more unto the perfect day.
Jesus does not bid the Christian to strive to shine, but just to let his light shine
in clear and distinct rays to the world. Do not blanket your light. Do not sinfully
withhold your light. Do not let the mist and fog and malaria of the world put out
your light. Do not hide it under a bed or under a bushel, but set it on a candlestick,
that it may give light to all that are in the house....God bids you shine, penetrating
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the moral darkness of the world.
Many do not know what is the matter with them. They want light and see no
ray. They are calling for help and they hear no response. Shall doubt and unbelief
be perpetuated because I do not gather the divine rays of light from Jesus Christ
and let them shine forth to others? ...
The deep struggles of my own soul against temptations, the earnest longings
of my mind and heart to know God and Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, and
to have assurance, peace, and rest in their love, lead me to desire every day to be
where the beams of the Sun of Righteousness can shine upon me. Without this
experience, I shall indeed meet with great loss, and all with whom I associate will
be affected by the loss of the light I ought to be receiving from the Source of all
light and comfort, and to be flashing into their pathway. Shall I be indeed a light
unto the world, or a shadow of darkness?
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