Two Lights | You Matter!

Still, in the same spirit of Resurrection weekend, I have yet another revelation.

I was reading a book in my room this evening, and both the open window and indoor bulb lit the cream pages from different angles.

Now, I despised the dim light from the bulb, to the point that I was tempted to go turn the bulb off. For some reason, the book’s grasping story wouldn’t let me stand up and away…

As the hours sped by, I inclined my book to the angle from which the electric bulb directed its rays. The sun grew dimmer and dimmer as the bulb waxed brighter and brighter.

Soon it was night. And boy, the bulb’s light was as bright as the sun’s: sufficient for me to continue reading, and sufficient for everyone else in the house (according to each room’s bulb) to continue about their errands.

Now the sun represents Jesus, or His duration up until 33AD. The disciples were like bulbs: not worthy to be compared to the sun, not bright enough … until Jesus suddenly ‘destroyed the temple, built it in three days’ , packed His bags and returned to some place above the clouds, leaving all His devotees staring up at them cumulus clouds!

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The moral is: Jesus would have stolen most of the show if He had lived up until 120 years. No one would have considered that his disciples could some day heal like He did. Why go for the assistant when the real deal yet exists! But if it didn’t — we’d peradventure rethink.

So, when the sun went to sleep… The Holy Spirit — which was the solar energy for the sun — had to come and be the electrical energy for the bulbs. The constant was light energy exuding from each of these. And since the constant was … the apostles were now the ‘new sun’. Or, they’d provide what the sun does, so that its need is lessened.

Soon, we see Peter lifting a crippled man at the entrance of a temple. The crowds that must have been questioning the disappearance of the Messiah discovered another (or others) who were like Him.

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The point I am driving to is that of significance or importance. Many of us, in the presence of men ‘greater’ than us, tend to conclude that we are not as important or ‘bright’. In the end, we choke our light. If we are the bulb in my room, we even switch ourselves off seeing that the user of the room despises us, and adores the sun light more.

But the sun goes to sleep as requirement of its revolution. Jesus seemed to know He was going away for a while, and so He said He wouldn’t leave us as orphans. Both us His disciples, and the world. For even those who don’t acknowledge the sun or aren’t grateful that it has risen, feel the pinch of their entitlement or their taking it for granted when night comes.

For the other orphans that know not Jesus, we the bulbs are mandated to shed the light of fatherhood to them, and perhaps, they’ll ask: who are these that give light like the sun?

See! You too are very very important! Your talent, your skill, your songs, your writings, your lessons, your inventions, your sermons, your stories — whatever it is that is from you, it is very very relevant. The ‘great’ men might go on vacation. They could not reach the people in your community, or in your space, and yet you can!

Your light, like that bulb in my room eventually pays off. I didn’t know its light would become brighter as the night became darker. I didn’t know it mattered until the sun went AWOL. Wait — perhaps the sun was on actual leave for the night’s 12 hours.

Conclusively, your light matters!

IT MATTERS!

You matter!

Be convinced of this! And learn not to compare yourself to the sun. You see, the sun can’t be told to stay around longer (except that one time when Joshua did the unthinkable); but a bulb on the other hand, is governable and docile. Whenever needed, it can be switched on — whether during night or day.

Sometimes people have to leave so that your light can shine. Some of them could be dimming your light. Others could be blocking it. Some things in life will only reveal to you and others how bright you are and how you matter in this earth!

If you think you do not, remember that experience when your community or nation had a blackout and yet the sun had gone to bed, and there were no lamps or candles available.

To aggravate this, imagine the blackout took hours and hours. You only end up realizing how the bulb-you matters even more!

Cheer up! This world … and many others are in need of you! You matter! I’ll say it again; YOU MATTER!

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Matthew 5:16a Let your light so shine before men…