I feel I am like a candle shining for God. Sometimes my light is firm and strong, other times it is just a flicker. When a door of trouble occurs I bend over sidewards in the draught. But as we read in Romans 8 ‘What shall separate us from the love Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword.’ Romans 8:15. As we read in verse 38 ‘I am convinced that neither life nor death, neither angels nor demons. neither present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God.’ verses 37-39 (Goodness, he does cover all bases)
I might flicker but by the grace of God I will never go out. We don’t have to depend on the strength of our tiny candle, God is keeping us glowing. It is not in our own strength. He is the maker of the sun and moon and the same power that He uses to keep them shining will keep us shining as well. Why are we worrying, He will keep us alight.
‘Jesus bids us shine with a clear, pure light,
In this world of darkest, burning in the night
In this world of darkness, so we must shine
You in your small corner and I in mine. Susan Warner