ARE you growing in grace, and in the knowledge of your Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ? It is not enough to know "our sins forgiven," nor even that we are safe forever—"no one able to pluck us out of His hand"—but He wants us to "shine" as lights in this dark world. Are you shining?
“Holding forth the word of life!" It is by communion with Him, who is the Light as well as the Life, that we shine.
Communion with Christ is easily marred. He wants all the heart. Half-hearted christians never shine—they may make a noise. Shining is calm work, but it is also brilliant work; and as in this matter we are like "reflecting glasses," we must see to it that we are not dimmed by the vapors of this world, or of our own self-seeking or self-pleasing.
Let us pray that we may indeed walk so clear of that which grieves Him or clouds us that we may all “Shine,
You in your little corner,
And I in mine." W. W.