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Don’t Hide The Light: The Blackberry Pocket Parable
Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Feb 20, 2026 (message contributor)
Don’t Hide the Light: The Blackberry Pocket Parable
This is where I always think about something that happened to me years ago. When I first got my Blackberry (throwback, anyone?), it had an annoying habit of opening up to the camera and taking literally hundreds of pictures of the inside of my pocket with the flash going.
The camera was not intended to take pictures of lint covered peppermints or the amount of change I’ve gotten from the last store I was at. They were meant to share the beautiful moments that have meaning in life. But it would constantly snap blurry, useless pocket pictures with the flash blazing. After a while, my pocket started to overheat — and I thought I was about to spontaneously combust at the grocery store! Lesson learned.
Light was never meant to be trapped in the dark. Neither was your life. Hiding the story of how Jesus is healing you is like taking hundreds of blurry pocket pictures of pennies and peppermints instead of capturing the beautiful, hope-filled moments God wants to display. Light was never intended to be hidden under a bucket. Or in a pocket. Because the result is only dark and murky pictures of what life is like. Jesus says: “A lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.” The purpose of light is to give light.
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