How can light be appreciated when there is no darkness?

Why should light be ‘afraid’ when darkness gets thicker? All that it needs to do is to increase its intensity, and no matter how ‘thick’ the darkness was, it would fade away.

If this ‘common sense’ or scientific knowledge is true and acceptable, why then do Christians fear when evil prevail in the ‘land’?

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has LOST its TASTE (its strength, its quality), how can its saltiness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. [Matthew 5:13].

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand and it gives light to all in the house. [Matthew 5:14-15]

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is heaven. [MATTHEW 5:16]

Darkness/evil is not a good thing but if there is light/a torch/a light source available, why should the darkness be a problem at all?

Our Lord told us that we should love one another as He has loved us so that with this, men will know that we are his DISCIPLES. He added that perfect love cast away all fears and it covers a multitude of sin. The more darkness tries to intensify itself what light has to do is to shine more and not get intimidated. If light gets intimidated by the amount of evil/darkness present, then ‘light’ is either not much (has little intensity) or is buried under a ‘bed’.

But if the light is vibrant and is set on a ‘lampstand’ come what may darkness will not be able to comprehend a thing, and it wouldn’t get a hold on the people (household).

Stop complaining! You complaining even shows that you don’t read the Bible, because the Bible instructs us to not complain or grumble [Philippians 2:14]. He tells us to cast all our cares on him for He cares for us [1 Peter 5:7].

Complaining about how evil the world is getting doesn’t make you righteous. It could only make you feel righteous but feelings are just emotions; they fade away and they are no truth. The truth is that The light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never OVERPOWERED it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriate it, and is unreceptive to it _ John 1:5] .

Brethren, do not underestimate the power of a single light: Stephen, while he was being stoned shone light on Saul who got saved later on [Acts 7:54-60, Acts 9:1-6, Acts 9:15-20]. This Saul turned out to become Paul, and through Apostle Paul, the Christian faith broke boundaries; Apostle Paul wrote most of the New Testament.

You don’t know what your ‘little’ light is doing my dear. Stephen didn’t write the New Testaments per se, but he sowed the seed of it in a ‘young man’, Saul. He didn’t even ‘evangelize’ to him. He just lived what he believed, and his life became the epistle Saul ‘read’.

Don’t under estimate the light which is in you. You may not know what it is doing but keep shining it anyway. Decide to live in the Word, and the light in you from the Word will do His own thing.

“Well done thy good and faithful servant. Enter into my bosom.” [Matthew 25:23]

We should not over estimate ‘evangelism’: “If what you are coming to preach to me cannot be seen in your own lifestyle, then forget it. Don’t come and put any York of bondage on me. If you cannot follow what you ‘preach’, if the importance and quality of the Word cannot be seen in your life, why advertise it to me? If the ‘product’ isn’t good for you what makes you think it will be good for me? At least try it and let me see if I am attracted enough to do what you do.” This is obviously a comment we will receive from a non-Christian if our Christian faith cannot be seen or testified about. Don’t go about evangelizing to feel good, when your own life is not a testimony of what you preach or believe.

Until we ‘advertise’ Christ and the Word with our own lives as testimonies and epistles, forget about evangelism; you will be like a noisy gong/ a clanging cymbal.

TAKE NOTE!

Amen.