人岂不把灯放在灯台上吗？
有人送了我一个很大的手电筒，我想，“放在客房里多好啊，以防万一”。我妈妈经常来过夜，她就用那间客房。如果她需要起夜，大手电筒会比小夜灯更有用。
有一天，我在打扫房间时，拿起手电筒，打开了开关，发现没有亮。再仔细一看，我发现手电筒里没有电池。这样的话，对我妈妈或其他客人确实没有什么帮助。
我在想，有时我们是否也是如此。我们想成为世上的一盏明灯，但我们的电池没电了，或者缺电了，或者我们还没有把电源插上。在这个比喻中，耶稣指出，我们把灯放进房间并不是为了隐藏它。灯的作用是照亮房间，让我们看见应该看见的事物。
查尔斯·司布真是一位伟大的传道人，他曾经说过：“圣经不是世界之光，而是教会的光。世人读的不是圣经，而是基督徒！你们才是世界之光。”
今天，让你的光闪耀吧，不要再躲藏。成为照亮世界的耶稣之光。
耶稣，感谢你，你要我们成为你的光。请帮助我们回应你的呼召，用你爱和恩典的真理照亮这个世界。阿们。
马可福音 4:21-23
21耶稣又对他们说：“人拿灯来，岂是要放在斗底下、床底下，不放在灯台上吗？
22因为掩藏的事没有不显出来的，隐瞒的事没有不露出来的。
23有耳可听的，就应当听！”
Don't You Put a Lamp on its Stand?
"If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear." - Mark 4:23
Someone gifted me a very large flashlight, and I thought, "What a perfect thing to put in our guest room, just in case." My mom often comes to stay the night, and she uses that room. If she needs to get up in the dark, a big flashlight can be more helpful than a small nightlight.
One day, when I was cleaning that room, I picked up the flashlight and turned on the switch. But no light came on. Checking further, I found there were no batteries in the flashlight. It really would not have helped my mom or another guest that way.
I wonder if sometimes we are like that too. We want to be a light for the world, but our batteries are dead or missing, or we haven't plugged in our lamp. In this parable Jesus points out that we don't bring a lamp into a room in order to cover it up. The lamp is there to brighten the room and to show us things that we need to pay attention to.
Charles Spurgeon, a great preacher in his day, once said, "The Bible is not the light of the world; it is the light of the church. But the world does not read the Bible; the world reads Christians! You are the light of the world."
Today, let your light shine. No more hiding. Be the lamp that illuminates Jesus to the world.
Thank you, Jesus, that you ask us to be your light. Please help us to shine the truth of your love and grace to the world you have called us to brighten up. Amen.
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