This Little Light Of Mine (Part 2)

        I recently wrote about how Christians are light, as Jesus describes us in Matthew 5.  Light makes things visible, God is invisible spirit, and once one puts their faith in Him they are given a portion of His Spirit.  Thus, God becomes visible to all Christians in spirit, if not with physical eyes, and as we are transformed by that Spirit we become light ourselves.  

So simple.  So awesome.

        What I'd like to talk about now is how that light looks in the 'real world,' it's purposes, and why we have it in the first place.

This Little Light Of Mine (Part 1)

        In my opinion, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who hadn't heard of the song This Little Light Of Mine. It's a plain and simple classic in the world of Christianity, and it's fame has spread throughout the secular world by way of anyone who ever attended Sunday school.

Reality

You are so real to me;

Your love is tangible.

You are incredible, O God.

Godly Sorrow

        A common misconception in the world today is that Christians are typically happy, smiling people, sometimes to the point of foolishness.  As any true Christian knows, we are not.  We are people with our own shares of struggles, trials, and toils in the world, and yet we can smile through them because we are filled with a joy that is not of this world.  We also, if acting as Christ intended, live out the words of Galations 6:2.  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.  Also, if we are living life in Christ, we can expect persecution. “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. (John 15:18-19)  In short, true Christians are not strangers to suffering.

        My question is, though we are familiar with sorrow, is it a godly sorrow?