Urgent need of the Light

A group of missionaries visited a village in India to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To their surprise and shock they found a little girl with both of her eyes burnt. The sad story of that little girl started as a simple curable headache. The little girl’s parents took her to a person in the village who practices many rituals and black magic. That person checked the state of that little girl and told her parents that there is an evil spirit in an eye of the little girl. So he laid the little girl in his lap and asked the mother of the child to bring a pan of hot boiling sugar. He mercilessly poured the solution in the child’s eye and as the child was screaming in her pain he told the parents that the evil spirit is shouting from within the child. The ignorant mother asked the person to pour the solution in the other eye also so that the evil spirit will leave her completely. Poor child! Now she is living blind because of the blindness of her parents’ hearts.

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them – Ephesian 4:18

This is just one example of many such incidents that happen all over the world, because of the lack of knowledge and understanding. New born babies are killed on the account of offering to gods in many places of the world. These people are living in the darkness of Ignorance. They need the light of knowledge and wisdom. When I type this, I’m asking a question to myself, “Then, who will take the light to those people? Someone should take the light to them!” I remembered what Jesus told of us in Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world”. So it is you and me who should take the light to them and show them the way they have to follow and the life that God has in store for them.

But, why did Jesus call us the Light of the World? What is in us that made Him call us that way? I praise God for the Spirit of God who gave me the answer which is, “The knowledge about the Son, Jesus Christ.” Jesus called you as the Light of this World because you have the knowledge of Him. And now, taking the light to those people means taking Jesus to them. When they receive the Jesus in their life, they receive the wisdom of God in them.

but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God – 1 Corinthians 1:24

Dear Friends, you who knew Jesus Christ keep not the knowledge of Christ to you safe and secure. The lamp lit should be put on the lamp stand for the whole room to be enlightened. Let it out for someone out there is in need of that light. The enemy is fast in killing the souls with this ignorance and taking them with him to the eternal darkness. Wake up friend! Arise and Shine. Time is fleeting and the kingdom of God is at hand.

Wesley Porpatham R

God’s Love Missions Family

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