Carrying God’s Light

One of the best things about the Christmas season is Christmas lights. We love going through neighborhoods and looking at them. As we were driving around this week, we saw some houses that would challenge Clark Griswald’s. My wife noted how it only takes one person with that many lights on it to challenge all their neighbors to up their game. The more lights a house had, the more their neighbors nearby participated. Light is very much like that. It’s beautiful and it’s contagious. People want to see light, be around light and also have light. It’s no wonder Jesus said we are the light of the world and that we are to let our light shine before people. We are to be like a city of lights that people can see and when they see our light, they will give glory to God. Don’t hide your light this season. There are people walking in darkness who need the light of Jesus to shine in their life through you.

Here are some Bible verses on carrying God’s light:

1. Put your trust in the light while there is still time; then you will become children of the light.

John 12:36 NLT

2. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:16 AMP

3. For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:6 TPT

4. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.

Luke 11:36 ESV

5. You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord’s people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light, for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Ephesians 5:8-9 GNT

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