Clean Reflectors

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Second Corinthians 4:5-6 says, “For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.   For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

     I have noticed that there are many devices that have reflectors on them.  Even my power chair has a couple of reflectors. Well, it has one left as the other one got knocked off trying to get through a doorway.  Of course, I often wonder why there are reflectors on walkers and power chairs as they probably shouldn’t be out in the dark in the first place.  We find that people use reflectors on vehicles and driveways to mark the entrance or even reflective tape for joggers who like to run in the dark.

    The above passage is one that speaks of spiritual reflection.  It goes on to say that we have this treasure in earthen vessels.  It doesn’t seem appropriate for such a treasure, but that is the way it is.  The Light of the world is Jesus and we know that to be true.  What the world needs right now is the Lord Jesus Christ to solve all of the problems that exist in our current culture.  We, as believers, have become “reflectors” of the Lord Jesus Christ as the “Light” is shining in our hearts and therefore, reflected outwardly to others.  The main purpose of a reflector is to reflect light and in itself, it has no power to give off any light until a light is shined on it.  Then it  will reflect the light.  Another obvious statement about reflectors is that they need to be clean in order to reflect any light at all.  There can be no scum, or dirt, or mud on the reflector as it would impede the ability to reflect light  to anyone.  Now, we come to Christian growth , which is a polishing of the reflector.  Day by day, being in the Word of God and incorporating it in our lives makes the reflector shine and in the spiritual realm, that means to reflect the Lord Jesus Christ to all those around us.. When I joined the Navy, I learned the art of “spit shining” shoes.  We were given a couple of pairs of dress shoes that were as dull as could be and they just seemed to be plain black leather.  With polish, a lot of spit, and a lot of fingers going around in circles over the leather for a long period of time, would produce a shine where  you could see your face reflected from the top of the shoe.  In effect, our hearts need to be “shined” with the Lord Jesus Christ   each and every day as it is necessary to improve the relectability of the heart.  This is done through the application, not of polish, nor of spit, but of the Word of God into our lives.  Praise God today for His shining in our hearts to others.