SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/28/2020 8:23 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1“Being Light”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt. 5:14a
Message of the verse: “14 “You are the
light of the world.”
It
is Jesus who is calling us light, and we have mentioned earlier that there is a
difference between salt and light. Salt
is hidden whereas light is obvious. I
remember studying the book of John some years ago and at the beginning of that
gospel we see that Jesus is called “The Light.” One of the things that I got
from that statement when I was writing my Spiritual Diary was that light
involves power. You cannot have light
without power. Even when Moses descended
from Mt. Sinai and his face was very bright it was because of being around the
power of God, and of course that is power.
We get light from the sun because of the powerfulness of the sun. We turn on a light in a dark room and that is
because of the power of the electric.
There is another thing different between salt and light and that is that
salt is more the indirect influence of the gospel, while light is more its
direct communication. Salt works more
because of our living while light works primarily through what we teach and
what we preach. Salt is largely negative
as it can retard corruption, however it cannot change corruption into
incorruption. Now as mentioned light is
positive as it not only reveals what is wrong and what is false but helps
produce what is righteous and what is true.
John
MacArthur writes “In his introduction to the book of Acts, Luke refers to his
gospel as ‘the first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began
to do and teach’ (1:1). Christ’s work
always has to do with both doing and speaking, with living and teaching.”
I
want to now move onto some of the things other biblical authors had to say
about light and because of it being Sunday I will end this SD with these quotes. Psalm 36:9 David writes “For with You is the
fountain of life; In Your light we see light.”
1 John 1:5-7 “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.” Next we
look at a very familiar verse from Psalm 119:105 as the author of that Psalm
writes “105 Nun. Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” MacArthur adds “God’s light is to walk by and
to live by. In its fullest sense, God’s
light is the full revelation of His Word—the written Word of Scripture and the
living Word of Jesus Christ.”
6/28/2020 8:46 AM
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