TRIM YOUR WICK!

Monday, October 1, 2018

TRIM YOUR WICK!

Matt 5:15-16

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Keeping the wick trimmed to 1/8 of an inch at all times helps control the amount of “fuel” or wax that is present. By keeping the amount of fuel limited, the flame will create ideal complete combustion where carbon particles are absorbed by the flame. This means less soot is formed while the candle is burning. This was commonly known in “olden days” but has been lost due to electric lighting.

There are only two kinds of people in this world. There are believers who provide “light” because they are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”  (1 John 1:5) It is important for the believer to keep his wick trimmed of impurities so that “they which enter in may see the light.”

Don’t hide your light under a bushel. We do this when we “mask” the light in us by trying to blend in with the dark world. It seems ridiculous to hide a candle under a bushel basket or under a bed yet this is the way Jesus illustrates our failure to shine.

Unbelievers are groping in the darkness. They are proud, self-sufficient, and do not understand their own unrighteousness before a Holy God. The candle dispels the darkness so the unbeliever can see. What he DOES with what he sees is up to him or her. We don’t make changes in others. We reveal that which should be changed. It is not always appreciated.

Dear Lord, let me trim away the impurities in my life that others may see Christ in me. AMEN