Let Your Light So Shine!

Michael E. Wood
January 31, 2011

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. 1 John 3:1

What an amazing thing it is, and what a privilege to ponder the fact that we are children of God; made so by His effectual call, through the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Why God would choose to save any of us, when we understand our own wretchedness, is impossible to comprehend apart from the application of His Spirit to the core of our being by the Word of His grace. Having removed from us a heart of stone, of which was absolutely incapable of responding to Him, He gave to us a heart of flesh; made alive by the spiritual transfusion of His Spirit, and the covering of the blood of Christ to make us His Own. And this He has done for His Own glory!

“God’s glory is more worth than heaven, more worth than the salvation of all men’s souls.” Thomas Watson

Paul referred to the glory of God in this manner as he addressed his first letter to Timothy.
1 Timothy 1:11 … THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY OF THE BLESSED GOD with which I have been entrusted. (Emphasis mine)

Oh that the contemplation and the worth of the glory of God would so resonate in our hearts that all of our thoughts and all of our ways would be taken up and transformed to show forth His glory through the sacrificial offering up of ourselves as we grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us.

This new song came as a result of contemplating these things over a three day period of time.

How humbling it is to know
We’re not what we should be.
And yet the blood of Jesus
By the cross of Calvary
Has caused us now to see
What kind of love the Father has
Given us, that children of
Our God we are known as.

The Spirit of the living God
Received of Him abides
In us to know every thing
Is true that He confides
To us that in righteousness
As from Him we are taught
To walk within the narrow way
For which by Him we’re bought.

Abide in Him now children
So that when our Lord appears,
We may with all confidence
And not shrink back with fears,
See Him as He Is and
In His likeness we shall be.
Thus in hope we strive like Him
To be in purity.

Oh see Him in His glory
And know Him in His might.
Christ is the way by which
We’re given grace for sin to fight.
For in Him there is not one sin.
He came to take away
Our sins, you know when He appeared
On earth that glorious day.

By this we know what true love is.
His life He did lay down
For us. And for our brothers too,
Where grace through faith abounds,
We ought as He, in deed and truth,
And not just word or talk,
Lay down our lives, a sacrifice,
Show love by how we walk.

So let your light so shine before
All men that glory be
Given to our Father,
Who in heaven did decree
All things that we may know Him
As He Is, For God Is Love.
In faithfulness display His gift
Til with Him then above.