We Are The Light Of The World! By Nanyamka Boyer
Good day to you my beloved brother or sister in our Faithful and Blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, our Mighty God and Everlasting Father. It is my prayer that this devotion finds you well, you and your loved ones, both spiritually and physically, full of faith, courage and hope in the Lord, as we continue to live through this pestilence and other calamities. For remember that these are the Words of Jesus, as He foretold us of these things that would come to pass in the Gospels, including in the Gospel of Matthew, and will continue to get worse, for all these things will later happen all at once during the seven years of the tribulation period, as we read in Matthew 24:7-8 "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
But we are not a people that are without hope, as I have mentioned before, for we have Jesus, the hope of and in this world. And when you have Him you not only have hope, but the security of eternal life in heaven, as He is our salvation and the Savior of this world. Blessed be His holy name!
As we now need the Lord more now than ever, let us remember that the Lord has promised to guide us and make darkness light before us, so we can see spiritually where we are going, as He promises us in the Book of Isaiah the Prophet in Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
For He is a God who also dwells in the thick darkness, as we learn through King Solomon, when he wrote it in 1 Kings 8:12 "Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that He would dwell in the thick darkness." So the Lord helps us and will continue to help His people, especially in times of great trials and tribulations, so continue to have hope and faith in Him.
On this day let us also remember that as children of God, through the righteousness of Jesus upon us the Saints, we are the light of the world, His representatives here on earth and the Light House that points the way to Jesus, so people can see Him and also get saved, as the Lord says in the Gospel of Matthew in Matthew 5:14-16 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
For as we know and obey the Lord Jesus and His example, people see Him in us and gain hope, when we tell them about His free gift of eternal life. And also see that we are no longer the people that we used to be, when we were in sin, so they also see and believe that there's hope for them too.
For the Lord's amazing grace is for all sinners, including the chief of sinners and will shine His light to them through us, so they can feel His warmth and love. And when we exalt the Lord's holy name, by our actions in public and wherever we are at, He gets glorified and people see and believe that we are truly the children or Saints of God.
So let us be the light that He has called us to be, behave as Saints of God, by being slow to anger, slow to speak and quick to hear, as we are commanded by the Lord through His beloved brother James in James 1:19 "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."
Also by ministering to the lost the Gospel and their needs if we can help them and they have asked us for help, before they perish, for remember that we are the light of the world or the Light House in this world that points the way to the Lord, so they can also be saved, as so many are dying all around us nowadays and are going to hell. For if the Lord prompts you to minister to someone the Gospel and you refuse, then know that you will end up with blood in your hands for not warning that one of his or her evil ways before the Lord, and the way of salvation through His Son Jesus, so they can have eternal life, as the Lord commands us as His people to do in Ezekiel 3:17-21 "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul."
And Saints there has not been a more perfect or a convenient timing for us to preach the Gospel to the lost, as we have now, as we can see that people are desperate and are looking for hope now. For as the Lord reminds me to give unto you this scripture, which says that we must work now while it is still day, as He did when He was on the earth, for the day or time will come that the door to preach the Gospel will close, as He says in the Gospel of John in John 9:4 "I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."
For also the Lord warned us about these dark days through the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. ye are all the children of light, as the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober."
So as children of the day or of the light, let us stay awake spiritually, as the days are dark and evil and let us be the light that the Lord has called us to be before the lost in this world and set the example, for the sake of His holy name. For remember that when we sin against Him willfully, after having been His Saints or children of God, we bring His name to shame before the lost and crucify Him all over again, when we come back to Him, through repentance, as it is written in Hebrews 6:4-6 "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame."
Go with God, have a blessed, joyous and peaceful week. Remembering that Jesus loves you, always, and that He daily waits for you to come to Him and spend time with Him, and as He also says in Proverbs 8:34-35 "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD." God bless you and have a blessed day!
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