Topic: Pray for God’s Light to Shine Brighter [Archbishop Margaret E. Benson Idahosa] Above Only Daily Devotional 29 April 2020
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Pray for God’s Light to Shine Brighter
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Acts 9:3-6 (NKJV) As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting…” So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
Just as God began creation by declaring His light, God also saves people and makes them new creatures by shining what the Bible describes as light of the glorious gospel of Christ, 2 Cor. 4:4. This is the light of God that we must pray and desire to see shine brighter and brighter every day. As we pray for this light to shine brighter, we must make ourselves available to God as a source of that light. We do so by preaching of the gospel of Christ. As the light of the glorious gospel of Christ shines brighter and brighter, so may people are going to have the kind of encounter that Saul encountered in our second text above. Saul encountered Jesus and He was so broken by that encounter that His entire life was transformed. May more and more people have such encounters with Jesus as God’s light shines brighter and brighter through us and in other ways that God desires.
As a result of Saul’s encounter, a lot of havoc was averted and the lives of so many of God’s children were preserved. Every time we preach the gospel and pray for God’s light to shine into the hearts of men, we may not know the great havoc we are averting and the amount of lives we are preserving. Saul not only turned away from the evil he was initially going to do. He actually became a great vessel in the hand of God to spread this same light and to bring about great transformation and blessing by the grace and power of God to countless lives. May God raise great vessels for His kingdom as the light of the glorious gospel of Christ shines brighter and brighter through us. May the lives of many who have been causing havoc to the body of Christ and our society be touched and transformed by God’s love and may they start spreading God’s love everywhere.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, may the light of the glorious gospel of Christ continue to shine brighter and brighter through me and other believers.
Bible in one year reading plan:
- 1 Kings 8-9
- Luke 21:1-19