Let your light so shine
As Christians we very often forget that the things we fight over has nothing everything, to do with hurt pride. We forget our true calling and we fall for the temptation of the devil and become engulfed in the rage that he wants us to become engulfed in. At this point we totally forget our Christian principles; and instead of becoming instrument of peace, we choose to become vessels of hate and tools of war.
As Christians we very often forget that the things we fight over has nothing everything, to do with hurt pride. We forget our true calling and we fall for the temptation of the devil and become engulfed in the rage that he wants us to become engulfed in. At this point we totally forget our Christian principles; and instead of becoming instrument of peace, we choose to become vessels of hate and tools of war.
This is what the devil’s strive for. His only hope and role is to get God’s children so caught up in the things of the world and the pride of the heart, that they forget their true purpose to be salt of the earth. As the bible said "and if the salt loses its savor" then what good is it? No good at all. As a child of God and a follower of Christ, I must learn humility for he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
As I read my bible today and I encountered Jesus he has revealed to me that the time is right, for me to let my light so shine that I must show men the savior who I confess to know. To fight in defense of ones pride is vanity. That’s what the devil does to us, he get us caught up in the prides of life, causing us to forget that we ought to be soldiers of Christ and of the cross.
I am one who held fast to the opinion that to be a blood bought Christian was just an excuse to be weak, a coward hiding behind the passive working of Christianity. But when one studies the life of Christ he was anything but weak. When the money changers were in the temple; he beat them and turned over their stuff. He confronted the big shots of his day and exposed their wicked deeds. Yet he never loses sight of his goals and his purpose on this earth.
Some of you who are reading this may conclude that I have given up, I have gone soft, and I have been worn down. I am sorry to burst your bubble that’s not the case at all. I have decided that I don’t have to fight every bottle I know I can win, and that will not make me any less a man, anymore weaker, or any less strong.
So with that in mind I ask God to use me to show other the God I have been confessing for so many years; a God whom I always misrepresent with my life. They confess me with their mouths but their hearts are far from me.
I refused to be used by the devil to rage war against those who are, God's Yet to be found children. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places. don’t forfeit the blessing God has in store for you, I have been doing for so many years. But 2008 will not see the continuation of such foolish act. Yield your will to the master and reap the rewards he has in store for you. Always remember that his strength is made perfect in our weakness.
May God richly bless you all.
In service to Humanity
Allan Palmer
