Day 7 – In the Right Hand

Do you feel as though your work for Christ has reached a point where your “light” has been reduced in your Christian walk? Maybe you were once active in your Church. Maybe you were involved in several ministries. However, your fervent work took its toll and you feel you’ve burned out. You figured that by reducing your “busy-ness” for God, your zeal would return. Ole slew foot would have you think this way. If he can deter you from doing the Lord’s work, he will have won.

Our Light

Your light may seem “smaller” to you, but just how much light can light up a dark room? My husband and I once stayed overnight at a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was so dark there, it was almost suffocating! We were laying in bed commenting on the oppressing darkness. John pressed a button on his watch to check what time it was and the background light lit up the entire room in a beautifully gentle blue light!

Even if you are feeling at your weakest and you are totally “spent,” it is not your light but God’s light that shines in the darkness. God can still use you – God wants to use you! Don’t grow weary in well doing. You are able to touch the lives of countless people who are in the same boat you are! Only you are able to touch certain people. Only you are able to influence a certain person. A light in the right hands can be used mightily by the Lord.

This story was such a blessing to me and it went right along with my thoughts today! I hope you enjoy it!

Great Story

A man holding a candle was climbing the stairs of a lighthouse. On his way up to the top, the candle asked the man, “Where are we going?”

“We’re going to the top of this lighthouse to give signals to the big ships on the ocean,” the man answered.

“What? How could it be possible for me with my small light to give signals to those big ships?”

“They will never be able to see my light”, replied the candle weakly.

“That’s your part. If your light is small, let it be. All you have to do is keep burning and leave the rest to me”, said the man.

A little later, they arrived at the top of the lighthouse where there was a big lamp with a loop behind it. The man lit the lamp with the light of the candle and instantly, the place shone so brightly that the ships on the ocean could see its light.

~Author Unknown~

Our Nothing Can Become “Something”

Be the small candle and allow the Lord to use you to do His work – He will use your “nothing” to accomplish “something”!