Let Your Light Shine

I read the following story a few years ago and copied it. I hope you will give it some very thoughtful consideration

A traveler came to a small village. Night was coming and people were hurrying through the streets carrying bronze lamps. When he asked about this, the reply was that the people were all going to  the village church building. When the building was built it was  decided that each member would bring his own light and there  would be no other way to light up the building, so each person  realized that if he were not there, the building would be darker. As more and more members came the building became brighter.

Do you realize that the church needs the light of each member, not just on Sunday morning but for all of the other services? “Do all things without murmuring and questioning; that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God with blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life…” Phil.2:14-16a.  (author unknown)