This Little Light of mine...

      It would seem that darkness goes hand in hand with deception.  It can play tricks on your mind.  I have mentioned how that a trip to the trash pile one night while we were living in the country, proved to be rather exciting.  I shined a light into the darkness, but only saw two, what I thought were, eyes peering back at me.  Judging by the distance between the two eyes the creature had to be very large.  Not wanting to kill it, I fired a couple rounds of bird shot from my rifle with no results.  The two eyes turned out to be the curves in my son's tricycle handlebar which he had parked near the trash barrel.  I recently purchased one of those fancy flashlights that are supposed to be used by the military.  This light illuminates the darkness and you can see everything.  I can find things in drawers, in the bottom of my closet, under the couch and many other places that I didn't know contained so many items.  John 1:5 says, " And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."  
      The greater the light, the greater the exposure of sin.  John the Baptist wrote that he wasn't that Light and was of course referring to the Light as being the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  If you dare, you could compare your daily life to that of Christ.  You will soon find out what is True Holiness.  As great as John the Baptist was, he still realized that he was nothing and that Christ was everything.  Revelation 21:23 says, "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."  We know how much light comes from the sun and the moon.  On a cloudless night sky, one can still see because of the light of the moon and the stars.  The day time is far brighter than we could imagine yet the Lord Jesus Christ is brighter than all of them put together.  Second Corinthians 4 reminds us that we are reflectors of the Light in our lives.  We know the difference between light and darkness and as you go out into the world today, you are going as light to a vast people who are living in darkness.  The sun may be shining today wherever you are, but people are still living in darkness.  As you go out, may you and myself included, be reflectors of the Light to a lost and dying world.  Praise God for giving us the Light.