CALLED TO STAND OUT: HOW TO DETECT LUCIFER’S LIGHT?

Monday, October 1, 2012

HOW TO DETECT LUCIFER’S LIGHT?

By: D. De Haan

If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! —Matthew 6:23

In today’s text, Jesus made a seemingly contradictory statement. He called light darkness. We can best understand His words, I believe, by comparing two kinds of light.

Consider first the flickering glow of a lightning bug. Two rare chemicals, luciferas and luciferin, produce the lightning bug’s light. Both terms are related to the word lucifer, which means “light-bearing.” (Lucifer is also one of the names for Satan.) Now consider the sun’s light. Its brilliance is blinding. By comparison, the lightning bug’s light is “darkness.”

In Matthew 6, Jesus cautioned His hearers about living for riches and urged them instead to lay up their treasures in heaven. Then He illustrated His warning by referring to “the lamp of the body,” the eye. If our focus is on spiritual things, we will be full of light. But if we live for earthly riches, we will become filled with a dark light, which He described as great darkness.

Money can brighten our lives to some degree, but it cannot heal broken hearts, remove guilt, or bring inner peace. It is too dim to satisfy our deepest spiritual longings.

Only Christ can illumine the soul with the light of salvation. Let’s live to please Him. Any lesser light will leave us in darkness.

The earthly riches we possess
Can demonstrate our love
If we deposit cheerfully
Our treasure up above. —Sper

Some people have plenty to live on but nothing to live for.

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Send Someone A Signal That They Matter … Every word you speak is a Seed that guarantees a reaction. Everyone needs reassurance of their worth. Remind yourself throughout today that each person you meet has encountered waves of criticism, condemnation and inferiority.. you can change this. Your words of reassurance can be like water on their Seeds of Hope.

“The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.” – Isaiah 50:4

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Nothing is as ever as bad as it first appears. Battle is the opportunity to prove what you believe. Joseph proved that opposition is the wave that takes you from the pit to the palace … Accept opposition as proof of your progress.

The size of your enemy determines the size of your reward. Do not let any enemy decide the timing of battle, nor the weapons you will use. - Murdock

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Never hesitate to re-appraise your goals and what you really want to accomplish.

Remember that your goals are birthed out of needs .. and your needs are often seasonal. Celebrate every page of progress toward your goals. Don’t keep pursuing a dream no longer capable of energizing you.

New information creates new goals. New relationships create new enthusiasm … Re-evaluate your current goals.

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?” (Luke 14:28)

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Aloneness.. removes the stain of wrong influence … Be willing to dream alone sometimes. - Murdock

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For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. – Isa. 28: 10 (ESV)

CALLED TO STAND OUT

Monday, October 1, 2012

HOW TO DETECT LUCIFER’S LIGHT?

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