Points of Light

   Several years ago President George H.W. Bush spoke of a thousand points of light.  He was referring to those people who do good and help to build our country into a country worthy of God’s blessings.  Yet there is a danger in the concept of the thousand points of light.  We may begin to think that we are the source of that light.

   It’s human nature to be prideful, to take credit where no credit is due.  When we become convinced that we are one of those points of light we are on very thin spiritual ice; we are in danger of believing that the light is from us.  We come to think that we are the source of the light.  But Christ alone is its’ source, we can only share what we have received from Him.

   If we stand before a mirror we see a reflection of ourselves.  It looks real even though it isn’t.  Turn out the light and our reflection will disappear; it no long exists.  In the same way, without the light of Christ we cannot be a point of light.  Our light is within us only because the Lord has given it to us.

   We are intended to be points of light in a broken world.  But to do so we must acknowledge that the light we share isn’t ours but that of Christ.  He is the true light; we are only the reflection.

Lord You are the light of the world.

We are merely a reflection.

Help us to share the light You give.

May Your light shine upon us forever.

Amen