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“Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning” (Luke 12:35).
We do not see people with their “loins girded about” in western countries, but in many countries of the world people wear clothes that are relaxed and loose, when they are resting around the house. But when they go out to work, they cinch up those clothes tightly around their loins—the area just above the waist. Then they are able to go out and work hard, and be active. The Lord wants you and me as Christians to be like that too. We are not left in this world simply to live good upright lives, and then to go to heaven at the end. No, we are left in this world to look after Christ’s interests, and to be lights for Him in a dark world. We are to be active for Him, but also simply to shine as lights for Him.
When we act in a right way before God, the world around us will notice. We may not always preach to them, but our character and actions will show that we belong to Christ.
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