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“Shining as lights in the world”

“…That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world…”  Philippians 2:15

While working on our Photography award in Conquerors, I challenged my high school girls in Explorer Girls to take this verse and pick out one section of the verse and then go and take photos that would depict that section. 

Note that the verse talks about us “shining as lights in the world”.  The one group of girls climbed to the highest point of the church building and looked out the window and saw the steeple shining in the night and snapped this photo. 

I think they “nailed it”!  This picture perfectly depicts the message of “shining as lights in the world”.  

My thanks to Melanie, Maya, Monica, Gabrielle, Eliza, and Makenna for pointedly showing us the truth of Philippians 2:15 through a picture. 

Light

What are some of the benefits we receive from light?

Here are a few that came to my mind:  Light…

* enables me to see clearly,

* helps me see where I am going,

* provides warmth,

* helps things to grow,

* shows the dirt,

* helps me understand the world around me…

Philippians 2:14-16,  Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

God, through Paul, reminds believers in Jesus Christ that we are lights shining in the midst of a “crooked and twisted generation”.  As you witness the unrest, bitterness, hatred, and immorality of the world around us, are you living in such a way that your life shines God’s purity and holiness and exposes sin for what it is?

Shine God’s light today!!