You Are The Light Of The World

You are the light of the world.

How does this make you feel when you read this? Lets slow it down and really ponder, YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

What immediately comes to my mind is the song "This little light of Mine, I'm gonna let it Shine." This is what scripture says; You are the light of the world.

If I am the light and you are the light and he is the light THEN why are we living in darkness? Why are we not, in this day and age using our uniqueness to bring LIGHT to the world?

This is really the question of our times, because out there, in the world we live in, is great darkness. We can pretend not to notice, we can shake our heads
and retreat out of fear of being labeled intolerant or some other nasty label or we can let our light shine.

How do we let our light shine? Is it by becoming political activist? Or by heralding people on the streets that the end is near?

I guess some may be called to those things, but the vast majority of us will be called to a more quiet movement. One that requires us to see ourselves and others not only as the image of God in the world but as fellow sinners. That's the beauty and the crux of our human existence, that we are both, simultaneously, the image of God and a sinner. We cannot escape this reality, we can reject it but cannot escape it.

Acceptance that we are all sinners, requires us to admit that we, ourselves, are sinners and it doesn't matter which sin(s) we participate in, sin is still sin.

I find it interesting that we now have laws that make some sins; rights, causing us to participate in the collective sin of the nation in which we live.

With that, how can any of us Be the light of the world. Even expressing it, it feels heavy and downtrodden, like all is lost and we are doomed.

Yet this is what we born for, somehow we are to understand and empower others with the knowledge, that this is what they too, were born for.....To be the Light of the world.

We must reflect on the circumstance of our birth and the events of our lives as they unfold, as the school in which we learn how to bring light to the world. We must accept our propensity towards sin and in spite of it or because of it, bring Light to the world.

This should make us feel a little better as it levels the playing field, for once we accept our own sinfulness; we can teach others to do the same.

Then let our light shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing our good works, they may give glory and praise to our Father in heaven.