If the world around you seems to be getting darker and darker, it MAY be an indication that YOU need to "come out from among them and be ye separate" (2 Corinthians 6:17)! Jesus had THIS to say to the people during His ministry in John 8:12:
12 Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.
Not only did they have the Light WITH them, but Jesus said THIS to His disciples to show them the difference between the world and those who followed Him, even under the Old Covenant! Matthew 5:14-16:
14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 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. 16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. AMP
HOW MUCH MORE are YOU the Light in this world IF you have been born again by the Spirit of God and have HIM living in YOU! John 1:4 tells us this:
4 In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. AMP
Then, pertaining to those who have been born again, we read THIS in 1 John 5:11-12:
11 And this is that testimony (that evidence): God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life. AMP
That LIGHT is what the lost NEED to see! Unless we are separating ourselves everyday unto Him, the Light in us will grown so dim that many will not even be aware of it! THAT is unacceptable for those who are called ambassadors:! 2 Corinthians 5:20:
20 So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God. AMP
So, let's LET that Light within us SHINE so that the world around US will be without excuse before the One, True God! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide", showing us who WE are and what the world SHOULD be seeing from us! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
