We are the Light Of the World

1. Are you a Smokey Lamp with a Cloudy Globe?

When a lamp’s globe is clouded up it doesn’t shine to it’s fullest potential. Maybe the blackness of unconfessed sin has crept in and started smoking up your life. It just takes a little smoke to cloud up a lamp globe.

The same is true with our lives. It just takes a little sin to make our light dull. We are always going to be prone to sin because it’s our nature but we have to work on it one day at a time. We have to confess our sin to Christ. Having unconfessed sin breaks our fellowship with Christ and causes our lives not to shine our brightest for Him.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

2. Are You a Dim and Slow Burning Candle?

As a candle burns out it gets dim and burns slow. Are you this type of light? Remember when you first received Christ? The Christian life was exciting and new! Are you getting slow about having a devotional life? Is your prayer life getting dim?

It’s easy to become complacent in our Christian life but when we do our light for Christ begins to dim and others can’t see Him in us. Take a step back, and get things into perspective, and remember what Christ did for you.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

3. Are you a Flickering and Hazy Light Bulb?

Maybe you get discouraged about something and you start flickering. Then you get fired up again and begin really serving the Lord only to be bogged down again and you find yourself not attending church, not reading your Bible, slacking off in your prayer life and fellowship with the Lord.

The Christian life wasn’t designed to be lived on and off again. It has to be a daily continual thing.

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23