Let Your Light Shine
It is always hard for me to read Matthew chapter 3 and not focus on verse 8, “Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.” To make it elementary (which is the only way for me to grasp things sometimes) what is on the inside will show on the outside. I have always had this visualization of somebody taking an orange and taping it to an apple tree and saying, “what we have here is an orange tree”. Something that we all have probably heard many times is that acting like a car and being in a garage makes you a car about like just going to church makes you a Christian. Here is the question I have to ask myself. What is it that is inside of me? What is that nature inside of me? There it is where it all starts. The study notes in my Fire Bible states, “showing outward evidence of true inward faith through obvious growth in character, compassion, and godly behavior.” I want the nature of Christ to be evident in my life, so where that starts is in the inside of me. So my prayer today, “Lord let the fruit be evident in my life, not because I have to go over the top in effort to make people see it. Let it simply be the nature inside of me. I truly want Your likeness thriving on the inside of me. I want people to see Your light in me, not because I wear a tshirt, have a fish on my car, or go to church. Let it be something in me that just shines. And not some little flickering candle that is fighting to keep burning, but Your blazing fire in me that will pierce the darkess.”
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