Light-Bearers......

" I desire each of My followers to be a Light-Bearer. The Holy Spirit who lives in you can shine from your face, making ME visible to people around you....." - Jesus Calling, July 23

come what may, I will be a Light-Bearer.....


whatever lot I'm given, I will be a Light-Bearer...


instead of letting the darkness swallow me up because of fear or doubt or envy, I will chose to be a Light-Bearer instead.


when all those around me question or provoke or persecute my faith, I will be a Light-Bearer....


when things don't make sense and timing and plans fail and fall through fragile cracks, I will be a Light-Bearer....


when peace-making gets hard and I'd rather chose comfort and self, I will be a Light-Bearer....


when I feel like an empty vessel of no worth or value, I will be a Light-Bearer....


when I get distracted by shiny worldly empty things, I will remember that so many souls are lost and empty and that I MUST be a Light-Bearer to point hearts to our True North Home....

Light only shines through the transparent, the see-through.

do we have see-through hearts? Or are they hardened or covered with huge walls built up around them?

my hope in this earth-walk here is this: 

that our broken-fragile mess of hearts and lives would be on display and that our devotion to the Bringer of Light in that messy dark would cause us to share more and more of the Healer and Deliverer of that brokenness so that others would know. that no matter how dark or hopeless or cruel this world is or empty or hurting we feel, that there is a LOVE that goes before us and covers us and saves us. a Love that chose us a long time before the hurt and has been waiting for us to return. one cannot see a shining light beaming through a vessel unless it's transparent, open for light to spew forth and shout it's colors and warmth and strength to what's in front of it.....

am i Light-Bearer? in all things, at all times?

does my whining or complaining, my worry or fear or doubt, my envy and jealousy, my pride or my insecurities cause my heart to be so plugged with gunk that not even a drop of Light can pour forth?

do i brighten the world by reflecting who HE is...or cloud it with me?


the clearest and most obvious way for something to reflect or shine light through something is to be close to the source. the only way for it to work, the HUGE factor is proximity.... the closeness of the object to the source right?

"Your closeness to Me will bless others by enabling you to shine brightly in this dark world...." Jesus Calling...Psalm 42:1-2, Psalm 34:5, Philippians 2:15

life is hard and not fair. most of us can sail or sludge through it just trying to survive and get through it...BUT if we HAVE hope, we must live like it. if we have a light that keeps us on path when it's so dark and we are stumbling, we must share the light with others....just as i would share my flashlight and it's direction-leading power with you if we were walking in the dark woods at night, shouldn't i share the same Light that helps me and leads my weary soul Home in dark wood seasons of heart and life?

can we see how self and pride and worry and doubt and all the rest of the vessel clogging junk gets in the way of that? it stands in between the source and the object and the object is others. and i am tired of the vessel clogging junk. i am so weary of it and restless and antsy to purge it, daily.....

come what may, i will PRAY AND TRY AND HOPE to be a Light-Bearer...i'll start with that.