Reading With Meaning: Matthew 5

"You are the Light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it out on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" - Matthew 5:14-16

This is the good stuff guys. Like the mind-blowing-so-cool-Jesus-rocks kind of good stuff. We are all filled with the light of Jesus. God hand picked each of us to be His and to be his messenger. He chose us to be the ones who would shine his light and bring him glory on the darkness of earth. He has put so much trust and love in us. Yet sometimes we shy away from this awesome role he has given us. We dim our light to please the world, to fit with our peers, to meet society's standards. We let the darkness of sin creep into the spots of our heart formally occupied by light and take over.
But we can't let this happen! We must protect our hearts because the truth is when we're not glorifying Jesus, we're glorifying the world and its sinful nature. There's no in between.
The world needs us be shining bright because the world desperately needs Jesus Christ. We can never turn our light off because we never know who will need to see God's love that day. God chose us with reason and purpose to be his people and we never know what his plans our for us to spread his love and bring him glory!