We have a responsibility to show forth the light of Christ. The notion that we are are called light by Christ coincides with the fact that He is the light of the world. Now the light is not God, that we should follow the light, but rather we are to get to the source of the light that we might obtain the source of that light, and that we would also be obtained of the source and so by this interaction, the light that emanates in Christ, emanates from us as his lights in this dark world.
When I read the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus out of the New testament, one phrase jumps off the page. Verse six says “that which is spirit spirit generates, while that which is flesh, flesh generates. Flesh is absolutely incapable of giving birth to anything spiritual. Also, spirit is utterly incapable of breeding anything except spiritual things. The two are utterly different on the genetic and molecular level. Even if they tried to masque their children as each other’s offspring, the nature of each would show forth eventually from the material provided by their parents.
That is so powerful and liberating, because that means we cannot nor should we even try to attempt to manufacture anything that is to His glory. Only He in us, working through and by and in us can manufature anything of use to the kingdom. d
