When Your Light Shines

John 12:10-11 "But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus".

The Lord said "let your light so shine before man that they see your good works and glorify your Father which art in heaven".Light is seen, and not heard. Jesus wants us to live a life that shows who He is. But many are busy telling  the world they are saved, telling the world what God can do ,but the life they live tells a different story all together. Our life should tell a dying world that the Savior lives.

Here we have one who lived such a life. Lazarus doesn't say a word in the entire bible, there is no record or reference of him saying anything. Yet the life he lived was one that caused others to believe in Jesus. Lazarus was dead and Jesus called him to life. His new life with Christ was such a powerful witness, that not only did it lead others to believe, but the religious leaders wanted to put him to death along with Jesus. We were once dead in sin, once wrapped up in the guilt of sin, and held captive in darkness, but Jesus called us into a new life with Him. We should let the light of our new life so shine that a lost world will believe on the only begotten of the Father.

Jesus said "If I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me". It is when we lift Him with the living of our life which draws lost souls to Him. My grandmother once told me a gentleman never says he is one, his actions do. So a real Christian doesn't have to say he/she is one, the life they live will tell the story. Let your light so shine, and lead a lost soul to Christ.