“Believers
reflect the light of Christ. Light has peculiar characteristics. (i) Light
penetrates and eliminates darkness in the community. (ii) Light enlightens and
enlarges a person’s vision and knowledge of an area. (iii) Light reveals and
opens up the truth of an area and clears up the way to the truth. (iv) Light
guides and directs the way to go and leads along the right path. (v) Light
differentiates between the right and wrong way. (vi) Light warns of the dangers
that lie ahead a person’s path. (vii) Light protects a person from the dangers
of stumbling, falling and sustaining
injury posed by darkness.
The
Christian life should be so radiant that others would be able to take a good
cue from it and go the right direction. It should be so useful to and
influential on others that they would rejoice to take after it. When the
penitent is cleansed from sin by the blood of Jesus, it becomes easy for him to
bear the light of the gospel which will influence others. The radiant Christian
holds forth the word of life. At every opportunity, he does “all things
without murmurings and disputings” and lives as one of the
“blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world ”. Those who are murmuring and disputing are yet in darkness.
Honesty, faithfulness and frankness are some of the characteristics of radiant
Christian living. The Christian is called to live the radiant Christian life;
therefore, he is to always shine forth the marvelous light of the gospel. Those
who live the radiant Christian lives are those who can positively influence
others and in the end, shine as light forever.
Christians, like light, have a
ministry of influence. They are like light. (i) Light is placed where its
influence can be best used and felt. (ii) Light has different strengths. The
more people to influence, the greater should be the strength of the light.
(iii) Some places in the world are brightly lit up while others are dimly lit.”-from bible study outline
“Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me
All His wonderful passion and purity
Oh, Thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine
Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me”