Extract: A Gleaming Lamp

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Remember that your lamps are to be kept well trimmed and brightly burning. What is more dangerous than a lamppost with no light at the top on a dark night? The very thing which ought to be a guide, proves a stumbling-block; so a Christian who is not letting his light shine, always proves a real hindrance to others.
Have you ever wound round a steep road, down to an old town in the hollow below hidden in thick darkness, with lamps gleaming only here and there? That is what God sees as He looks upon this dark world! The only light there, comes from those who were sometimes darkness, but now are “light in the Lord”; and “who walk as children of light.” (Eph. 5:88For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (Ephesians 5:8).)