Let Your Light Shine: Luke 11:33-36
““33) No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34) The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35) Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36) If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.”” Luke 11:33-36
Jesus used the illustration of an oil lamp for walking in truth and light. Once a lamp is lit and trimmed, it is placed on a lamp stand to give light to the entire room. It illuminates the eye to prevent stumbling because of darkness. It is not hidden away in a cellar or placed under a basket. That would be a waste.
So is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the gospel. It ignites an inner lamp. It is intended to shine brightly through every situation and relationship in life. Several scriptures speak loudly on this theme.
Psalm 119:105 says; “Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” God’s word is a trustworthy light to illuminate our path. This verse has shaped my walk with God over many decades.
1 John 1:5-7 says; “5) This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6) If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7) but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” These verses capture the illuminating factor of a relationship with God. There is no excuse for sin and darkness in the life of a believer.
Furthermore, passengers like Ephesians 5:7-8 and Colossians 1:12-14 teach that we are delivered by the domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of light. As born-again believers we become children of light. We have both new identity and a new inner beacon shining within. Don’t obscure it!
No wonder in Mathew 5:14-15 Jesus proclaims that we are the light of the world. The darker the world the brighter we shine.
If Jesus is in you, let your light shine. Place Him in open view on the lamp stand of your life! Don’t be shy, timid, reserved or ashamed. Let the light and life of Jesus shine through you! Don’t be timid to be who you are in Christ. Light is part of your new identity.
Daily Bible Commentary By Terry Baxter: Cofounder of GoServ Global
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““33) No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34) The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35) Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36) If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.”” Luke 11:33-36
Jesus used the illustration of an oil lamp for walking in truth and light. Once a lamp is lit and trimmed, it is placed on a lamp stand to give light to the entire room. It illuminates the eye to prevent stumbling because of darkness. It is not hidden away in a cellar or placed under a basket. That would be a waste.
So is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the gospel. It ignites an inner lamp. It is intended to shine brightly through every situation and relationship in life. Several scriptures speak loudly on this theme.
Psalm 119:105 says; “Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” God’s word is a trustworthy light to illuminate our path. This verse has shaped my walk with God over many decades.
1 John 1:5-7 says; “5) This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6) If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7) but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” These verses capture the illuminating factor of a relationship with God. There is no excuse for sin and darkness in the life of a believer.
Furthermore, passengers like Ephesians 5:7-8 and Colossians 1:12-14 teach that we are delivered by the domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of light. As born-again believers we become children of light. We have both new identity and a new inner beacon shining within. Don’t obscure it!
No wonder in Mathew 5:14-15 Jesus proclaims that we are the light of the world. The darker the world the brighter we shine.
If Jesus is in you, let your light shine. Place Him in open view on the lamp stand of your life! Don’t be shy, timid, reserved or ashamed. Let the light and life of Jesus shine through you! Don’t be timid to be who you are in Christ. Light is part of your new identity.
Daily Bible Commentary By Terry Baxter: Cofounder of GoServ Global
Sent from my iPhone
