Thursday, July 29, 2021 Live It and Proclaim It "You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:14 NLT). In the military, if soldiers go absent without leave, or AWOL, a military court will rip their stripes off. It essentially takes away their rank. I wonder sometimes if we need something like that in the church, something where Christians lose their stripes for being bad witnesses. It's better not to be a witness at all than to be a bad witness. What drives me crazy is to see people talk about the Lord all the time and then openly contradict it by the way they live. In other words, they are light without being salt. Jesus said that we are to be both salt and light: "You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? . . . You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:13-14 NLT). In contrast to salt, which is primarily living what we believe, light signifies proclaiming what we believe. Each one is important. |
No comments:
Post a Comment