Don’t hide your light under a bushel.
Now is the time for those who have the hope of eternity
planted inside them to let it shine. We Christians are people of hope. We are
people who believe in a Father God who loves the whole world. The whole world. Atrocities
rip into our hearts and lives but they also rip into God’s heart.
Now is the time to allow God to transform our thinking to
that of Christ. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to
save the world through him. John 3:17 We are his hands and his feet, his heart
and his head, as we move through this day today. For too long the church has
sat in judgment on the world, criticising, condemning, creating barriers when
in fact, Jesus came to break down all the barriers, to welcome in the hurting
and the lost, and to usher in the Kingdom of heaven.
Now is the time. This is the day that the Lord has made. The
darkness has not overcome the light. Jesus and his love and his mercy have the
last word.
After the weekend atrocities and the heightened fears, how
should we Christians live? With courage and conviction, trusting in our Father
who is love.
Let your light so shine before others that they see, and
give glory to God. Let’s transform this season which could sink into despair
into a season of hope and high expectation. Keeping our eyes focused on the
Lord, we can do all that he asks, which is more than we ask or imagine.
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