Day Star part 3
The day star is literally the star that shines during the day. The sun. The SON. Jesus. Arising in our hearts to shine forth in us, and as us, and through us. So that WE can shine. Let me link two Bible verses together. "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12). Letting us know that the light--that LOVE--is life. Stumbling around in the dark is never what God intended for us. Killing ourselves to "live" according to the world's standards is never what God intended for us. Jesus came that we might have life, and that more abundantly. And LOVE is what makes life abundant. And LIGHT is what allows us to see that love. And seeing is believing. Which brings me to my next memory verse: "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid" (Matthew 5:14). Jesus is the light of the world. And we are the light of the world. Its the same light. The same love. And when we're walking in love ("following" in Jesus' foot steps by letting Him make His own foot steps with our feet) we can't get lost. Love lights the way. When you do things because they are in your heart to do them... you can't go wrong. Now listen, I'm not saying everything will always go exactly the way you want it to. It won't. Love doesn't demand its (HIS) own way. But if you give people what you've got--living out of your abundance--you can't go wrong. You will at least have done your part. And that's all you can do. That's all you should ever be expected to do. If someone expects more from you than you can give... that person probably isn't right for your life. You can easily wear yourself out by trying to do more than you can do. I said you can, but you shouldn't. In sports they have a saying: "Do your job." Its not your job to do everything. You can't reach everybody. I say it all the time--I know I'm not for everybody. But those that I CAN reach... I make sure to reach them. Because if I don't, maybe nobody will. Maybe nobody else can. So do what you can do. Let that light shine. Be you, but do everything you do in love. Because of love. Out of love. "Why'd you do that?" Because it was in my heart to do it. What's inside--what you believe is inside--will always come out. So stop seeing yourself as dark and void. That's how things were in the beginning before God said, "Let there be light." Now we know who we are. Because now we know who God is. God is our heavenly Father. God is love. He is the light of the world. And WE are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. When that day star arises in our hearts... when we arise and shine because the glory of the Lord IS risen upon us... we can't be hid. People will see what we have. And since what we have (love) is what they desperately desire anyway, they'll finally be able to stop looking for love in all the wrong places and they'll be able to come to the source. Just as we come to the source to fill ourselves to overflowing with what we've been filled with. The day is light because the sun (the SON) is shining. On us, and in us, and through us, and as us!