October 18 2011

The Spotlight
 
Reading: I John 1:5-7, “5This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. (NASB)

I love acting. I remember the first time that I was in a college play production. I was extremely nervous but it was pretty incredible… I came out, said my lines and moved across the stage like we had practiced over and over and over again. The time that I moved toward the front of the stage and looked out into the crowd… I was very pleasantly surprised… I could hardly see a single person. There could be only one person or a couple thousand people and I would never know. The spotlight shining in my face and the darkness of the audience produced an inability to see beyond the stage. They could all be doing cartwheels or throwing a football and I would have no idea.

Men, “you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (I Peter 2:9, NASB) Wouldn’t it be great if we lived out lives in remembrance that we live in His marvelous light, yet with that comes the reality that we are now in the spotlight, on stage, in front of the world who is in darkness. One of the amazing byproducts of this is, with the light shining in your face, you cannot see the distractions of the world. Yet, the world is an audience watching how we act in the light. How is your performance?

What have been distractions and temptations for you in the world?


How can you allow the light of Christ to shine in your face to blind you from those distractions and temptations today?
End of the Day Review
  
What distraction and temptations were you able to see today?
 
 
Were you able to keep your eyes on the light and, if so, what happened to the distractions/temptations?