Let Your Light Shine

– Guest Post by Amy Menter –

Have you ever stopped to consider that the God who spoke the light into existence is the same God who gives you the opportunity to know Him personally? (click to tweet) Today I have the privilege of sharing a second devotional written by my good friend, Amy Menter. May it move you to draw even closer to the Savior.

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.2 Corinthians 4:6

The gift

Take this in for a minute….God hath shined in our hearts.  God, who commanded with the word of His power, “Let there be light and there was light,” (Genesis 1:3) is the very One who shined in my heart.  And when He did, he lit up my darkness so that I could know and partake of the most precious gift I’ve ever received …. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Wonderful Counselor, the Lamb of God… my personal Lord and Savior.

I’m so humbled by this joyous reality.  It wells up within me such love, adoration and worship for my God. For the One who created light and all that I can see in this world has done an equally marvelous work in me – lighting my soul with the beauty of Himself and the triumph of His grace.

And His light continues to shine into my heart, brightly revealing to me the glory of the face of Jesus Christ more and more.  And I, like the Psalmist, have said:

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Psalm 27:8

Seeking His face

When you say you seek the face of Jesus what does that look like for you?  I know for me, thinking of seeking His face reminds me of experiences in my most intimate relationships.  For example, I know and love the face of my husband.  I can read his look and know just about what he is thinking or what he is feeling.  I can see many things in his face, including his love, his concern and his compassion.

While the details of my husband’s face are well known to me, do you, like me, ever wonder what Jesus’ face looks like?  For He is the image of the invisible God, so to say His face is glorious is only just the beginning of His description.

So as He shines His knowledge in my heart when I seek Him, by faith, I see His face (click to tweet).  And this was made even clearer to me recently when I was sharing with a dear friend how I really am seeking and waiting for some answers from the Lord about some major life decisions: not simply for those answers, but for the longing of my heart, which is to see His nod.  Not just to get His ‘yes.’ It’s about so much more than that.

So others can see

It’s about getting to see His smile, His expressions of comfort and His pleasure with me.  But also, and most importantly, it is about seeing that what I’ve sought in Him brings the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ to the surface of my life so that many others may see His light shine into their hearts also – in His face, they may find all the expressions of love, goodness, healing and grace they will ever need.

Your turn

Have you experienced the light of Christ shining in your heart? As you seek the Lord today, will you let His light shine out of you and illuminate those around you?

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