BE
A CITY ON A HILL
BREAD
14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be
hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it
under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone
in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before
men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” Matthew
5:14-16 (NIV)
21 He
said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a
bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever
is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mark
4:21-23 (NIV)
16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under
a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the
light. 17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be
disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the
open. 18 Therefore consider carefully how you listen.
Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he
has will be taken from him.” Luke 8:16-18 (NIV)
33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be
hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who
come in may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your
eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad,
your body also is full of darkness. 35 See to it, then, that the light within you
is not darkness. 36 Therefore, if your whole body is full of
light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light
of a lamp shines on you.” Luke 11:33-36 (NIV)
12 When
Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the
light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life.” John
8:12 (NIV)
9 And
this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and
depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and
may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled
with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory
and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11
(NIV)
5 Come,
O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. Isaiah 2:5 (NIV)
1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. 2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you. 3 Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” Isaiah 60:1-3 (NIV)
BUTTER
“A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.” D.L.
Moody
“A little light dispels a lot of darkness.” BHY
“The true Christian cannot be hid, he
cannot escape notice. A man truly living
and functioning as a Christian will stand out.
He will be like salt; he will be like a city set on a hill, a candle set
upon a candlestick. But we can also add this further word. The true Christian
does not even desire to hide his light.
He sees how ridiculous it is to claim to be a Christian and yet
deliberately to try to hide the fact. A man who truly
realizes what it means to be a Christian, who realizes all that the grace of
God has meant to him and done for him, and understands that, ultimately, God
has done this in order that he may influence others, is a man who cannot
conceal it. Not only that; he does not
desire to conceal it, because he argues thus, ‘Ultimately the object and
purpose of it all is that I might be functioning in this way’.” Martin
Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount.
“Almighty God, give us grace that we may
cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light.” Book of Common Prayer
“The light was natural, physical light.
Its creation was an immediate victory because it dispelled darkness. Light and darkness
in the Bible are also symbolic of good and evil. Here began God’s work which
will culminate in the age to come when there will be no darkness (Rev. 22:5).
Israel would know that God is Light—and that the Truth and the Way are with
Him. In the darkness of Egypt (Exodus 10:21-24) they had light; and in the
deliverance they followed His light (Exodus 13:21).” The Bible
Knowledge Commentary
“It is
light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ
who gives us light.”
Augustus Hare
“Our Light shines forth in order to point
others to Christ – the Source of our Light – and never to self – most often the
source of our darkness.” BHY
“Be
Brave. Hold out your Light to hold back
the flood of dark. Be Brave. Your bravery wins a thousand battles you
can’t see because your bravery strengthens a thousand others to win their
battles too. Be Brave. And do not pray for the hard thing to go
away. But pray for a bravery to come
that’s bigger than the hard thing.” Ann
Voskamp
HEART SAVOR
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Light dispels darkness.
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Our lights point to Jesus, the Source of our light.
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Whatever you do, do it for God’s glory.
