March 17, 2015
MY FRIENDS, DO OUR NEIGHBORS KNOW WE ARE SIMPLY A REFLECTION OF GOD’S LIGHT THAT SHINES?
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. ’This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ’There is no other commandment greater than these.”(NKJV)
My friends as a child do you remember sometimes at night looking up at the vast array of infinite beauty that God has created, imagining if you were only a star, everyone would see you.
Larnell Harris has a song that says. “Have you ever walked outside into the stillness in the night and looked deep into the heavens and view the brilliance of the light and wished upon that moment that you could shine that way and then called out to the father so that He could hear you say.
I wanna be a star up somewhere in the silent sky like the one over Bethlehem that brought the humble and the wise [I] want the
world to know Your love, and the hope that’s found in you I’ll shine anywhere you ask me to.
[I will have] no glory of my own for it will [just]be for anyone to see it’s simply a reflection of your light shining in me” (Larnell Harris, I want to Be a Star) My friend, God’s commission to us is that we shine anywhere He ask us too.
In addition, we must remember that when Christ tells us to “love our neighbor as our self, it “does not mean merely one of the church or faith to which we belong. It has no reference to race, color, or class distinction.
Our neighbor is every person who needs our help. Our neighbor is every soul who is wounded and bruised by the adversary. Our neighbor is every one who is the property of God. (E. G. White Christ Object Lessons pp376)
A story is told about the duke of Wellington who was once present where a party of Christian men were discussing the possibility of success in a missionary effort among the heathen. They appealed to the duke to say whether in his judgment such efforts were likely to prove successful, proportionate to the cost.
The old soldier replied: “Gentlemen, what are your marching orders, Success he said, is not the question for you to discuss. If I read your orders, they run thus, ‘go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.’ Gentlemen, obey your marching orders.”
So the secret my friend “to every Christian’s success as to his or her mandate from God will be found in the harmonious and daily workings of all Christians, along with the Holy Spirit in the finishing up of Gods work regardless of what this world deems as success.”
Remember success as a Christian for Christ is not Him asking us to devote ourselves to His cause: but for us to yield ourselves to 
His will. “Every excuse in word and action, with every element of fear and faithlessness to continue witnessing for Him was challenged and answered on the cross when He said” “it is finished.”
While much of the fruit of our labor will not be apparent in this life, but if your desire is to give it all to the Master, then when the element above opens up with thousands upon thousands upon ten thousand of angels at our Saviors side singing, “Holy, Holy, Holy and we look into the face of our Savior and realize we had seen that face many times before “in the least of them.”
At that moment my friends we will know our reward is with Him, “to give every man and woman according to his work while we were hear on this earth. Oh what a day I hope we are all longing for.
So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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