A Glimmer of Light

A Glimmer Of Light

Because we are human we can sometimes have a desire to want to be noticed, to be held in high esteem, or feel superior to others. We feel we can compete and excel with our position, power, money, status, and gauge our worth by bank accounts or by the magnitude of the material goods that we own.

If we happen to lack tangible influential things, then we can recoil and reach deeper, or lower our principles if you will, by connecting with and grasping at whatever we can from our distorted bag of tricks, the error of our ways, to mock, criticize, and demean others in order to lift ourselves up. We can with deliberate evil intentions or with blameless innocence charge others with the lack of authenticity, integrity, and truthfulness, and credit them with false malicious acts and thoughts against others, all the while knowing, or not, be convincing actors that are able to persuade most audiences that give time to vain gossip.

What we greatly lack as individuals, groups, nations, and a world is knowledge and implementation of the way of teaching of Jesus. We have somehow over generations past, missed or skirted around the truths and principles of the proper way, God’s way that our ancestors once knew well and lived for a time.

We have as a matter of convenience and in the name of self-righteousness bent the rules, tweaked the laws, twisted the policies, flipped the system to a point that we are now so far removed from what is truly moral, good, upright and decent. We’ve gone so far as to blatantly ignore and suppress the tidbits of conscience we had left and think we have traded up for the better as we grow closer to false self-competence rather than closer in our walk with God.
We think we are completely and self-sufficiently in charge of the outcome of our lives; when in fact, it is God who has His grace filled hands on everything for us. He sets us up, time after time, with opportunities for prosperous living, and we repeatedly turn to old ways to try to manage life ourselves, turning to Him mostly in times of desperation.

However, these types of appraisals of our lives and quantifying reasons that we use to excuse our behavior have become so much the norm that we mistakenly believe them to be our bona fide reality and the way. Nothing has ever been further from God’s truth. His intended paradise on earth complete with fruitful means beyond our comprehension has manifested itself into an exhibition of corrupted competitive clashing egos.

Today our conduct, customs, behavior and traditions are not in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ. We have forgotten, or perhaps have never been properly schooled or disciplined in such divine truths.

Jesus lived here on this earth. He came to show us that to serve others should be one’s ultimate purpose, ambition and aspiration. That in order to be recognized, to be deemed great, and held in high esteem by God, and not by each other, we must be slave to all by service. A definition of slavery is “somebody who is forced to work for somebody else for no payment and is regarded as the property of that person.”

Rather than focusing on the terms “property of that person” we should be receiving a greater message of a kind of love sacrifice. Be “willing” to give of yourself freely and “happily” help for no personal gain because of love for another human being.

When we work with each other side by side in harmony for the same good purpose and share in similar positive intentions, then we could by the most minute of descriptions be called pleasing disciples of Christ. We may not always find another who complies with our good ideas and works, however, their rejection should not stop us from continuing on our personal mission. It doesn’t matter that our contribution or offering of our help, time, and money for the sake of others is large or small, it is for God’s children and therefore it is great in His eyes.

Although we will never come close to perfection shown to us through God’s Son Jesus Christ, He offers us hope nonetheless. He knows who we are. He knows what we think. He knows where we will fall short. God loves us beyond understanding anyway and He will never abandon us.
Make today the beginning of a new agreement with God. If you have already established an elevated relationship with Him, then take this opportunity to strive for a deeper and more rewarding bond. God never stops for us, therefore, we should never cease cultivating a deeper faith, learning from mistakes, expanding in spiritual maturity, and growing in our ascension to a higher commitment to living a life in line with Jesus Christ.

The disciples documented their experiences with Jesus and that legacy has been left to all generations since. We possess an inheritance and have at our fingertips an overflowing reserve of grace-filled answers to human questions and devout parables that demonstrate the pious life Jesus lived, so that we too may share in the glory and reap the benefits of the heaven that awaits us which Jesus has already received.

Of course, we have our ultimate model Jesus Christ who showed us the way. However, God has also granted us graces through the power of prayer and petitions and through the experiences and lives of others, including saints, through which He gives us the opportunity to take advantage, share knowledge and valuable experiences with each other that offer insight, security, comfort and love.

We are called to spend time in an effort to mentor our families, friends and strangers, for we all could use a genuine warm caring heart, a forgiving friend, a helpful hand, and a comforting motivating spiritual guide and companion through our short journey here.
Be an outstanding example, a great teacher, a powerful prayer, and an unending unyielding faith-filled lover of God.

You might have someone near you whom you admire for their pious, devout and divine attitude and whom you’d wish to imitate. We may do so because we are inspired and motivated by the tangible. Continuously move forward in personal growth but proceed with caution when emulating another. Always fall back on your oldest friend, Jesus. Walk in His shadow. Become familiar with His eminent route etched in history. Ask Him through prayer what would He do when in your special set of circumstances. The answer may not always be comfortable. God’s sent His Son to connect with us and His way is glorious and faultless yet often challenging and painful, while our ways are broken and temporary band-aids in a flawed world in need of work and healing.

When the day’s end has come and we lye down to rest and we can say that we have lived this day following as best we can in the footsteps of Jesus, then we know we are on the right path to our privileged conversion and supreme salvation.

In all that we do, we must keep the light for Christ shining bright within us. Whenever darkness attempts to take over, we will have the strength to immediately turn things around through the powerful and forceful light that glows steady within us. Therefore, the pessimism of others, negativity of situations, and the gloom and disparagement of murky circumstances shall have no dominion over us.

We have all the ammunition necessary to fight all that comes against us, even if the battle is with ourselves. More than any words that could be poetically or masterfully composed by a human mind and tongue, we have God’s holy words of life that proclaim and hold a never dimming radiant light that will eternally sustain anyone who chases, follows and pursues it.

A glimmer of light is living within you, breathing, waiting for you to ignite it!



Inspired by:

Peter 1:3-9
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed for the last time. In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith-being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire-may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Although you have not seen him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”