1 Corinthians 1:27-28
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are.
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Quite a number of years ago now I did a teaching on the 'lesser light’ {Gen.1:16}, the moon, that the Lord placed in the sky to give light in the absence of the sun. He was showing us how He uses us, His children, to show the light of the Son—using the weak and foolish things. The result being, as Paul continued to write, is to insure 'that no man should boast before God' {1Cor.1:29} and as John wrote, 'In order that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.' {Jn.5:23}
 
It is so important for us to see and understand the simple and obvious truth that even today it is still just the reflected light of the light of Jesus that now makes us the 'light of the world' as He called us to be. {Mat.5:14} I am certain that if He had asked any one of us saints of God to plan that 'sky stuff' we surely would have placed the biggest most polished, shiniest giant reflector in orbit around the earth. God, on the other hand, chose to use the moon, a big, bumpy, dark, scarred lump of rock—just like us—to reflect His light.

So now it is incumbent on us, each and every believer, to let our light shine before men in such a way that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father who is in heaven. {Mat.5:16} That will be the result of our being faithful to proclaim the excellencies of Him—not ourselves—who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light just as the apostle Peter wrote {1Pt.2:9} speaking to all of us who live as aliens in the darkness of this world today. {Pt.1:1} Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. {Php.3:20}

While we are in the natural weak human beings that Paul is writing about in today’s verse we, the children of God, are also called and equipped to be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might. {Eph.6:10} For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, victorious because of our faith in Him! {1Jn.5:4} That will be clearly evident at the end of time. Solomon wrote that the end of a matter is better than its beginning {Ecc.7:8} and what a day of rejoicing that will be!
 
God shines in our hearts giving the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face of Christ. {2Cor.4:6} He still will not give HIS glory to another {Is.42:8} but He certainly will show it through us. Hallelujah!

“The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.”   (Psalms 19:1)
 
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!