Issue 18 - Day 2

2 Corinthians 4

2 Corinthians 4:3-6
3)  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4)  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5)  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6)  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Light shining from faces is definitely the theme this week. Yesterday we read of the light shining from Moses’ face. Today we see the light shining from Christ’s face. The difference once more is that Moses represented the law, and so glowed with reflected light, physically, not the direct glory of God. Christ shone with a spiritual light, and it was a direct light for he was the glory of God in person!

The toughest part of our ministry is that the people who most need to head the word of God are those least likely to listen. Spiritually, they are blind, and the source of that blindness is not God, but the devil. He does not want anyone to realise that Jesus was, and is God. He does not want them to see that light. Christ came to shine the glory of God in the spiritual darkness that is this world. We in turn are to shine that light for others. As it says, we are a city on a hill, the light that cannot be hidden.

For this reason, do not preach God using your own ‘wise’ words and persuasion, but speak the words of God in power and truth. Whatever God has revealed to your heart, shared with others that they may know him also.