Light shune
Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God. ~ Genesis 6:9b (CEV)
Make your light shine, so that others will see the good that you do and will praise your Father in heaven. ~ Matthew 5:16 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Rightliving does not just benefit us, but others see and are challenged to consider how they might live to honor God, too.
PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, thank you for empowering us to live compelling lives radiating your light. But I confess that I can be pretty hohum about the whole thing. It's not that I think it is untrue. It's just that I allow competing priorities to capture my imagination and energy. Crank up the power so that your light radiating from my life is the most obvious thing about me. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
