I Am Salt And Light Series

We are called to be the controlling agent in every situation in life. “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven”, Jesus says.

You have Christ-empowered influence, wherever God places you.

• You may say, “I don’t feel like it!” It doesn’t matter what you feel, that’s what you are because of Christ.

• What kind of an influence do you have today? If people are watching you, what do they see?

A pastor was in the garden making a wooden rack to support a climbing vine. As he was pounding away, he noticed that a little boy was watching him. The youngster didn’t say a word, so the preacher kept on working, thinking the boy would leave. But he didn’t.

Pleased at the thought that his work was being admired, the pastor finally said, “Are you trying to pick up some pointers on gardening?”

“No,” he replied. “I’m just waiting to hear what a pastor says when he hits his thumb with a hammer.”

We are being watched. And Jesus says, let them see… Let them see your good deeds and PRAISE your Father in heaven.

• That’s our testimony. Let our words and behaviours draw people to God, not to drive them from God.

• If your words and actions aren’t doing that, we are not being the salt and light that Jesus expects.

(3) We need to be INTENTIONAL about it.

Get the world out of the way, and to do that, face the Son!

This is a choice we make. It is not the problem with the salt or light. The salt is contaminated; the light is blocked.

• Some of us may insist on covering the light under a bowl. We choose to hide it, in sin, in disobedience, in doing things our way, and not God’s way.

• Something has gotten in between us and the Son. Our salt is not longer pure. Our light is hidden. We have chosen to compromise.

Would you really want to touch someone’s life? Then you need to be touched by Jesus Christ first.

• If you are not transformed on the inside, you have nothing to give others. If Christ has not touched you, you have no pure salt to offer, no light to shine.

• You shine because He first shines His light in you. You are salt because all contaminants have been removed by Christ.

• You have to spend time with God. Moses’ face shines each time he met God and was in His presence. The only way to reflect God’s glory is to meet up with Him and see His glory.

• The moon shines best when it faces the sun fully, unhindered, unobstructed.

FACE the Son, and you will REFLECT His light.

Conclusion:

A man has a precious stone, a priceless jewel. On the way home, he met a traveller, who said he was hungry and asked if he could share some of his food. The man opened his bag to take out some food and the traveller saw the precious stone. On impulse, he asked the man if he could have it. Amazingly the man gave him the jewel.

The traveller departed quickly, overjoyed with his new possession. He walked on for a distance but not for long. Suddenly he turned around, ran back to the man and made the request: “Please give me something more valuable, more precious than this jewel. Please give me that which enabled you to give me this precious stone!"