Since the days of our initial introduction to Jesus, we have been groomed to make a difference. From our own neighborhoods to foreign fields of opportunity and even poverty, we have been handed a divine mission.
From seminars to prayer closets, our hearts' deepest desires are to light up the world for the urgent cause of Christ as well as the definitive hope of man.
Let us continue. It doesn't take rocket science to figure how. Thus, this post merely serves as a reminder to what many already know....and do.
Believers are created in the image of God. Therefore, we have characteristics like His. Ah, how amazing this is for the human to absorb. We are actually like Him in so many ways. One of the strongest is found in the simplicity of our speech. What we say produces because what He said came into being.
If we are going to light up a discouraged and dim world, it will be through our words before anything else. We have embedded within us the dynamic of bringing things into existence that aren't yet. It was Father who was first recorded as saying, Let there be light. And....there was.
An undeniable pattern follows these centuries later. What one speaks becomes. If we speak hope, we live in it. If we speak complaint, such is the bed we make for our discouraging self-pity. Life adheres to how the tongue expresses.
Because creative speech is of God...and now of us...we are free to become ultra-enthused over possibility and potential. We (I mean you and I mean me) can light up the world by encouraging words. We have the ability to cause others to arise from their pits by proclaiming the good qualities they possess.
When we speak words of hope, life arises. Remember Ephesians 4:29? We are to watch our words? The negative ones discourage and the grace-filled ones edify? This is a call to use our speech to turn on the lights.
You and me: we have the talent, the calling, and the responsibility to speak light into the dark caverns of the depressed, the lonely, and the forgotten souls. We aren't called to glad-hand or to be vain gabbers. We are called to light up the world the same way God did...we speak life as our words inspire.
What could be more powerful and more exciting? Bless others. Tell them how special they are, how important they are, how terrific they are. Do it.
Go make someone's day!
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