Daily devotion

What is my Reflection?

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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. I Corinthians 13:12 NKJV

I am amazed every morning as I walk by the pond in our neighborhood. Some days its reflections take on the look of a watercolour on canvas. The beauty secret of our humble pond is not its size or even depth, but its stillness.

Do you sometimes wonder what people see when they look at our lives? Not many of us are rich, famous or amazingly smart. Neither our best efforts or our loudest boasting can change who God created us to be.

But there is a great victory in acceptance of who we truly are. Acceptance of God’s gift of grace gives us a quietness to our soul. As the peace of that stillness spreads across the surface of our life we will effortlessly reflect the vivid colors of the beauty of our Lord…

Shining Our Lights

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Okay I know that in Jesus day there were definitely no electric lights! In His time you either had to use an oil lamp or a candle, either of which needed a wick. But you could also consider a light bulb as a sort of wick. Just as with the others it does not have the capacity to produce light. Instead it provides a place through which the oil, candle wax or electric current passes allowing it to shine. Oh yes we do need to continually go to Jesus to be sure our lamps are filled with the oil of His Spirit. But we also need to be sure that our wicks be kept trimmed and clean so that His flame can burn its brightest. When the light burns the best no one will even remember seeing that little wick. I am so glad that Jesus promised he would not put out a smouldering candle. Instead He snips off the old dark and hardened portions of my wick so I can burn my brightest for Him!

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16 NKJV