"Borrowed Light"

"A Prayer of Praise" [A Psalm of David] "The LORD is my light and my salvation: whom should I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom should I be afraid?" (Psalms 27:1) Wasting no time on small talk, I thought we needed to jump right into this next Psalm; primarily because it flows nicely from the previous Psalm, and continues the thought of our need for more of Jesus: the more of Jesus I have in me, the more I shine for Him!!! Just in case you were not aware of this fact, the light that we have in our lives is not our Light, but it belongs to Jesus. When you look think about a light that is borrowed, it is much like the light of the moon in the night sky: borrowing it's light from the sun, it is allowed to shine with the reflection of the sun's light. That is pretty much how we shine with the Light of Jesus; for we are borrowing the light we shine with from the Son of God. There is one slight difference between this situation of borrowing the Lord's Light and that of borrowing as to pay back with the same or equivalent value, which is sometimes how it works when you borrow something from a friend; the Lord requires that we shine brightly, and that we do not bury our light that we have been given. In answer to David's question, we do have someone to fear, and that someone is the Owner of the Light that we have been given!!! Not to be feared as a tyrant or a harsh taskmaster, but as the One who holds us accountable for His Light which is meant to shine brightly in us, and is meant to produce other sources of borrowed light. In other words; we have a Light that is given to us, that is meant to be multiplied! If the Light we have been given is not spreading unto others, then it is because we are covering His Light for shining as it should. What is it that gets in the way of the moon shining brightly? It's the world!!! "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." (1 John 2:15-17)