Bible Study: "Radiant Living"

"Believers reflect the light of Christ. Light has peculiar characteristics. (i) Light penetrates and eliminates darkness in the community. (ii) Light enlightens and enlarges a person’s vision and knowledge of an area. (iii) Light reveals and opens up the truth of an area and clears up the way to the truth. (iv) Light guides and directs the way to go and leads along the right path. (v) Light differentiates between the right and wrong way. (vi) Light warns of the dangers that lie ahead a person’s path. (vii) Light protects a person from the dangers of stumbling, falling and sustaining  injury posed by darkness.

The Christian life should be so radiant that others would be able to take a good cue from it and go the right direction. It should be so useful to and influential on others that they would rejoice to take after it. When the penitent is cleansed from sin by the blood of Jesus, it becomes easy for him to bear the light of the gospel which will influence others. The radiant Christian holds forth the word of life. At every opportunity, he does “all things without murmurings and disputings” and lives as one of the “blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world ”. Those who are murmuring and disputing are yet in darkness. Honesty, faithfulness and frankness are some of the characteristics of radiant Christian living. The Christian is called to live the radiant Christian life; therefore, he is to always shine forth the marvelous light of the gospel. Those who live the radiant Christian lives are those who can positively influence others and in the end, shine as light forever.

Christians, like light, have a ministry of influence. They are like light. (i) Light is placed where its influence can be best used and felt. (ii) Light has different strengths. The more people to influence, the greater should be the strength of the light. (iii) Some places in the world are brightly lit up while others are dimly lit."-from bible study outline 

                                            "Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me

                                             All His wonderful passion and purity

                                         Oh, Thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine

                                            Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me"

The only way the light and beauty of Jesus will be seen in us is that we daily pursue Him, hunger and thirst after righteousness, and consistently want more and more of Him.

May the Light of the Bright and Morning Star Jesus, shine through us by the wisdom and knowledge of His word in Jesus' glorious, shinning name -amen.

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Have a blessed day!

-Charity