A full day, Father, and I am weary of body and mind. May I hear your voice as I sit here in this early evening. Amen.
Mark 4:21-25 (<<click to read the passage)
One thing every school bus driver is supposed to do every day you drive your bus is to thoroughly inspect the major components of your engine and all the major pieces and parts under your bus. There’s much more to your “pre-trip” than that but in those early morning hours – 5:30 am for me – you have to have a decent flashlight to illuminate that at which you are looking. Nothing is to be bent or broken or leaking or missing. Any problems, if ignored or missed, could be recipe for disaster and I don’t know anyone who would want to be stuck on the highway attempting to keep a bus full of kids safe in potentially dangerous conditions.
The light is of utmost importance. If I left it on the bus what good what it do me? Our learnings from Jesus are very similar. The more time we spend with Him, the brighter our light grows. And as it grows brighter we are better able to find problems that need to be addressed – in our lives and in the lives of others, as well. When we see things for what they really are, we can deal with them.
So, Lord, if I am striving to be all You need me to be, I must be diligent in using the light You have given me. I can’t hide it “under a basket or under a bed” or magnetically stuck inside my bus! AND, when I do use it, I can’t ignore what the light shows me. If something needs to be dealt with, may I not hesitate to do so. If it is something difficult may I not be slow to address it. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine! Help me to shine it, not hide it!
Mar 3rd, 2019, Sun, 6:33 pm
