wow!!! I am "chewing" on some scriptures and words that I heard Sunday morning (and last Sunday as well). Great stuff...but it is like trying to ea
t 5 crackers at once (without water)...close to impossible to swallow all at once. Brother Pastor has been speaking about being a light in the world and showing you "good" works. WoW!!! Some real basic stuff but if you go to the heart of it...some hard stuff. Being a light...a reflection of HIM! Someone who shines and illuminates goodness. Someone who people are drawn to...not because they are funny, beautiful, rich...no they are drawn to them because there is something "different"...something they "can't put their finger on"...something beyond "good". Wow!!! Someone who turns the other cheek, someone who knows people don't like them but likes them anyway! Someone who can treat
others like they themselves want to be treated (WoW!!!)...and when i say this I mean really treat them like they themselves would like to be treated (respect, love, kindness, honesty, friendliness...). It means being that light when everything else around you is darkness...WoW!!! It means being a light when someone has come and blown your light out (notice i say someone...which means we allowed it to happen...), and yes it means being a light when we ourselves have let the light go out... How do we do this? Well, my guess is we return to the one who originally gave us the "light". He is the ONLY one who can rekindle that flame. If we try to light it ourself it will not be a "true" light and eventually people and yourself will see it for what it is..a flameless light! WoW!!! to be that kind of light? I know I am una
ble to accomplish this on my own...I know I have no flame on my own. Maybe that is where we start...admitting we are no light within ourself. But then the next step is so hard...to be a true light you MUST extinguish anyone (including yourself) and everything that is within you (kind of like pouring all the oil out of the tiki stand...without it there is no way it will light...even if you have the wick...it will not light). By doing this you are putting faith in HIM! And you are allowing HIM to fill you and when the time right light you up! And then...you will shine, you will glow and you illuminate HIM!!! WOW!!!! Such incredible thoughts to chew on...and at some point swallow...
t 5 crackers at once (without water)...close to impossible to swallow all at once. Brother Pastor has been speaking about being a light in the world and showing you "good" works. WoW!!! Some real basic stuff but if you go to the heart of it...some hard stuff. Being a light...a reflection of HIM! Someone who shines and illuminates goodness. Someone who people are drawn to...not because they are funny, beautiful, rich...no they are drawn to them because there is something "different"...something they "can't put their finger on"...something beyond "good". Wow!!! Someone who turns the other cheek, someone who knows people don't like them but likes them anyway! Someone who can treat
others like they themselves want to be treated (WoW!!!)...and when i say this I mean really treat them like they themselves would like to be treated (respect, love, kindness, honesty, friendliness...). It means being that light when everything else around you is darkness...WoW!!! It means being a light when someone has come and blown your light out (notice i say someone...which means we allowed it to happen...), and yes it means being a light when we ourselves have let the light go out... How do we do this? Well, my guess is we return to the one who originally gave us the "light". He is the ONLY one who can rekindle that flame. If we try to light it ourself it will not be a "true" light and eventually people and yourself will see it for what it is..a flameless light! WoW!!! to be that kind of light? I know I am una
ble to accomplish this on my own...I know I have no flame on my own. Maybe that is where we start...admitting we are no light within ourself. But then the next step is so hard...to be a true light you MUST extinguish anyone (including yourself) and everything that is within you (kind of like pouring all the oil out of the tiki stand...without it there is no way it will light...even if you have the wick...it will not light). By doing this you are putting faith in HIM! And you are allowing HIM to fill you and when the time right light you up! And then...you will shine, you will glow and you illuminate HIM!!! WOW!!!! Such incredible thoughts to chew on...and at some point swallow...
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