You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be
hidden.
Thoughts on This Verse....
For Christians, there is no playing hide and seek with the
world. Having been rescued from darkness, we have to let our light shine. That
sometimes means that others see God's light reflected in us and learn to
glorify God through us. At other times, however, it means that we stand out in
a world of darkness and become targets because of our faith. Either way, there
is no place to hide. We are light in a world of darkness; we cannot help but
shine!
Proverbs 26:20
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies
down.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Ol' Smokey The Bear said: "Only you can prevent forest
fires!" Basically, that's what the Wiseman says about gossip. We can turn
down the heat, douse the fire, and let the quarrel die. How? By not supplying
juicy morsels of gossip, by ditching the urge to spread destructive innuendo,
and by refusing to keep alive an ugly rumor. Without gossip, the bitterness of
a rivalry can dissolve and relationships can mend.
2 Peter 1:21
For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but
men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Where did Scripture come from? What is the basis of our
faith in the Bible and the Gospel? Peter wants us to realize that the prophets
of ancient times didn't bake up their own private recipes for their prophecies.
Instead, they could only move and respond to what God was doing in them, not
what they themselves wanted to do or say. They were human, but their message
was God's word because the Holy Spirit moved them to speak and guided their
words. This makes what we have in Scripture from the prophets more than
precious: we are given the very words of God! (cf. 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the
highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it,
the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the
multitudes of heaven worship you.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Our praise is pretty irrelevant to everyone and everything
but us, those closest to us, and amazingly to God. In a universe so vast, so
much bigger than Nehemiah could have imagined, what is our small voice and our
song of praise? The billions of stars and innumerable creatures of the immense
seas all cry out that our Creator is LORD. God will receive the worship of the
angels and all the heavenly beings. What difference does it make if we praise
him? To the universe, to be blunt, it doesn't matter. But it does to us! It
matters even more to the LORD, who longs to be our Father and wants to bring us
into relationship with himself.
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