Do you not realize that you are called out to be lights in this world?
Your life is similar to a city built on a hill that cannot go unnoticed.
Let your light, therefore, shine brightly before all people, that they might see your good works and praise your Father, who is in heaven."
--Jesus
What qualities in a follower of Jesus give us the ability to 'light up a room' when we walk in?
Consider these:
- Light: when there is nothing perverse, lewd or deceptive in our countenance or conversation
- Hope: when we refuse to let circumstances dim our
commitment to being better
image by PoemHunter.com - Courage: when we are fearless in facing the difficulties we encounter
- Faith: when we trust the goodness we see in others because we see them through the eyes of the Lover of souls.
- Love: when we are ever growing in our capacity to love and be loveable.
- Positive Attitude: when others see darkness we see light. When gossip and complaint threaten the company we're in, we focus on right and true.
- Gentleness: when harshness and brutality are the order of the day, we offer the other cheek.
- Kindness: when to be like Jesus in offering a drink of water to a thirsty child is the only reward large enough to satisfy our own thirsty souls.
- Peace: when turmoil crashes in we calmly turn our eyes to the One who has overcome.
- Patience: with inner strength marked by endurance we stand when others fall.
- Forgiveness: when others hold to the bitterness of grievances, real and imagined, we love to the working of repentance.
- Goodness: when we know the Beauty that comes from living our lives like the One from Whom all Good flows.
- Excellence: when we know the Blessing that comes from doing all things well.
Surely to become a disciple of Jesus is the reason every person is born!
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Charlie