Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Luke 11:14-36

Receiving the Light

33 "No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a basket.[f] Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where its light can be seen by all who enter the house.

34 "Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. 35 Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. 36 If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light."

Upon reading these verses, I see the importance of discernment of the light within us. To make sure that the light we have is not actually darkness. This brings to mind the necessity to do a house cleaning on ourselves. We have to make sure that all the dark corners where we hide anger, resentment, unforgiveness, envy, jealously, prejudice, doubt, guilt and any host of other emotions that keep us from completely giving ourselves to the Lord, are swept clean. In this way, the light flooding from within us can truly present us as Christians, living by God's Word, and living for God.

It is Spring.....no better time to clean house!! AMEN