Let your light shine

Once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. 1

You are all children of the light. 2 So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. 3 Be always ready to do what is good. 4

You are the light of the world – like a  city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father. 5 Let your light shine for all to see. For the glory of the LORD rise to shine on you. 6

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance. 7 Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth, but the glory of the LORD rises and appears over you. All nations will come to your light. 8

Always try to do good to each other and to all people. 9 Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticise you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. 10

 

1 Eph 5.8 2 1Th 5.5 3 Eph 5.8-11 4 Titus 3.1 5 Mt 5.14-16 6 Isa 60.1 7 Psa 50.2 8 Isa 60.2-3 9 1Th 5.15 10 Phil 2.14-15