There
is a room in my house that is dark, so I went to the store
and got a lamp. I found a lamp that was perfect and fit
the décor of the room. Everyone thought it was a
beautiful lamp, but when night came the room was still dark
and no one could see anything, especially the lamp. I had
an old light bulb. So I put it in the lamp, but there still
was no light! I discovered that the filament in the light
bulb was broken and did not work. A man came to the door
and said that he had a new light bulb and could he come
in and put it in the lamp. It was free and all I had to
do was to accept it. I said yes, and he came in and put
the new light bulb in my lamp. Still no light! He said that
the lamp needed to be connected to a power source and he
plugged the cord into an electrical outlet. Still no light!
He said that I needed to turn on the switch on the lamp,
so I did. And now there was light! It filled the whole room
and everyone could see everything in the room.
A
simple story, but it has an important meaning to our life.
You see, we are the lamp (body). We spend a lot of time
and money making it look good. And that’s OK, but
it’s not doing what we were made to do. We were made
to bring light into the world. The old light bulb(our old
nature) in the lamp (body) is our Soul (our Life) and the
filament inside the light bulb is our Spirit. But it is
broken and does not do what it was meant to do. Give Light!
The Man at the door is JESUS and HE came to give us a new
light bulb (A New Nature). All we needed to do is accept
it. He is the One who paid for it! When we accept it, we
are given this New Life (born again). But in order to be
what we were meant to be, we must be connected to the power
source (GOD). That’s the work of the Holy Spirit.
He is our connection (the cord) to the power source (GOD).
The
key word in the verses above is LET. The Greek word used
here is HYMON and it means to "Let Your" or to
"Allow Your." The Hebrew word for LET is HAWYAW
which means "To Be, Become, Exist." We are to
LET our Light (JESUS is Our Light) shine before others.
We are the lamp, the tool which GOD uses to let HIS LIGHT
shine before others. We are not to hide it. We need our
lamp shade to be transparent, meaning that we need to be
open, so that the Light shines forth for everyone to see.
One
other thing to remember is that GOD has given us a Free
Will (the switch on the lamp). We have the ability to turn
on and off the Light. He wants to shine through us, but
we have to LET (Allow) Him! As we trust in Him and allow
Him to be in control of our life, the Light will be on and
others will see the good deeds in us and give Glory to GOD.
Selah –pause and think about this. To HIM be the honor
and glory - Amen
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