Since I recently received a Golf Cart for my birthday, I’ve been reading up on the appropriate time electric golf carts need to charge. Depending upon the battery, regular use and overall age of your cart, the recommended charge is between 3-7 hours. Like any battery, you don’t want to under or over charge it. Subsequently, I’m currently in the discovery stage to determine the ideal time for recharging my golf cart battery.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your [z]moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and [aa]recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven, Matthew 5:14-16.
After beginning the Sermon on the Mount with spiritual attitudes to embrace, Jesus turns his attention toward letting your faith shine. Jesus begins with an analogy, how light can shine through the darkness of night when a city on a hill is fully lite up. Lights aren’t meant to be placed in a corner for simply the person reading a book late at night. Rather, spiritual lights should be illuminated without any sense of fear or shame.
Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [[l]against God] and [m]questioning and doubting [among yourselves], 15 That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world, 16 Holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may have something of which exultantly to rejoice and glory in that I did not run my race in vain or spend my labor to no purpose, Philippians 2:14-16.
The apostle Paul builds upon this concept in a letter to the Church at Philippi. The context of the passage above points to putting on the mind of Christ, looking at your life as a servant of the Lord. Rather than dwell on the negative, which will poison your soul, start to become beacons of hope, Philippians 4:8-9. This is how Christians can become spiritual stars, shining bright in your spheres of influence. This should be the goal of every Christian by recharging your spiritual batteries daily.
by Jay Mankus
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