Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Let The Light shine through you


1 John 3:24
Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us

1 John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

1 John 3:9
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.

John 1:4
Life was in Him, and that life was the light of men

He is the Light, and the Light is in you, therefore It must shine to be effective. Matthew5:16 promises us that when this Light shines in us, It brings Glory to the Father. How do you get this Light to shine? Since what you have received (Light) is a seed and an Imperishable/Eternal One, It therefore means there’s a tree/forest hidden in that seed, but the only way a seed will grow to a tree/forest, is if the soil it’s planted in, is a good manufacturing soil, and also it needs to be ‘properly’ watered according to it’s kind of seed, e.g: some seeds are watered by the rain, others need to be watered by man daily. But this One is imperishable/Eternal , therefore it needs watering everytime (every second) . How do you water it? Through the Word of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit everytime, this is how you water It.
Now, about the soil, this is you (Genesis2:7), you are the manufacturing soil for the Seed. How you live will reflect what’s in you (the mouth speaks from the abundant of the heart), if you live this Seed that you have received in you, this will then make you a ‘good manufacturing soil’ ( a Doer of the Word). This (John3:30) is how He increases and you decrease, by you allowing Him to be the abundant overflow of your life, when they look at you they see Jesus, and this is when the scripture in Matthew5:16 comes to effect, In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

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