A Note from Pastor Keith
March 5, 2000
This story is related by John Guest in his book, Only a Prayer Away. "The other night I took our family dog for a walk. It was a full moon, so bright that we cast a shadow as we walked along. But of course the moon has no light of its own. It shone, and it lit us up so brightly, because the sun was shining on it. It merely reflected the sun's light. In the same way, we have no glory of our own, only such as is reflected from the light of Christ that shines upon us. That is what we live for: to bask in that radiance, to reflect it, to bring it to the world around us, not for our own sake but for the praise of His glory."
Such a simple story that communicates a powerful reality of God's Word: our lives are to reflect the glory of Christ. But unlike the moon, which merely reflects the sun's light off of its surface, we are to let God's light pierce us through to the very core of our being and then shine as it changes us from the inside out! Only then will people see the glory of God reflected in us.
2 Corinthians 3:18 says, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."
In His service,
Pastor Keith
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