Shining Servants

We should also be shining servants—"your lights burning." Instead of their lamps going out, they are well supplied with oil, trimmed and burning brightly. This implies dependence, faith, communion with Christ, and the Spirit ungrieved by our walk. There will also be unsparing self-judgment. John was spoken of by our Lord as "a burning and a shining light." Such should we be, as the Apostle so pointedly instructs us: "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life." Phil. 2:15, 16. We should then be shining servants. Our light should shine before men, and will do so if we are abiding in our Lord Jesus. "Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." Eph. 5:8.