No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts in under a basket

Psalm 116…I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

It’s true…and now a song…oh well…there are so many…but a couple or a few…will do in this telling…and perhaps not the whole song…but with the reminder that I didn’t write these songs…these lyrics (words) are what others have written…and in some cases the writing of these songs…were not seemingly for the Lord’s purposes…but as I am reminded of songs…and they are worldly at best…the Lord has given me and my loved ones the ability to see…that those songs can be sung to our Almighty One…when we keep our minds and hearts and the focus on Him…oh yes, change a few words…if it’s necessary…but honestly in just seeing a few of these words…you will see how He continually speaks to me!

Love Letters…by Nat King Cole…

Love letters straight from your heart…keep us so near while apart…I’m not alone in the night…when I can have all the love you write…

Oh my….how romantic our Lord can be…my face is blushing…

This next song…I was going to turn down the radio as I was driving to church with my sister…but she said…that’s one of my favorites…and it can be sung to the Lord…and as I listened I saw she knew the truth of these words…hmmm, by the American Breed?…I didn’t know that band name…hmmm and the grammar…oh yes…quite American…

Bend me shape me anyway you want me

Long as you love me it’s all right

Bend me shape me anyway you want me

You got the power to turn on the light

ok…I was only going to share the chorus…but this verse is calling to be written…

Everybody tells me I’m wrong, to want you so badly

But there’s a force driving me on, I’ll follow it gladly

So let them laugh I don’t care

All I want is you by my side

Bend me shape me anyway you want me

Long as you love me it’s all right

Bend me shape me anyway you want me

You got the power to turn on the light

Ok…and it’s not only the songs on the radio…but the songs that were planted in my heart at church when I was a young girl….a hymn by Clara Scott…

Open my eyes that I may see…

Glimpses of truth though hast for me

Place in my hands that wonderful key

That shall unclasp and set me free

Silently now I wait for Thee

Ready my God Thy will to see

Open my eyes, illumine me…Spirit Divine…

Oh how divine….oh how divine it is to be in the presence of the Lord…and wonder and ponder the treasures He’s placed in my heart…and the treasure is His Spirit and the treasure is His Word…and the treasures are so many people whom I have met over the years…and more…and more…and more…oh so much more…but I don’t have the Words today…but the Word is in me…and it’s getting much clearer as I spend most my time with knowing Him…more intimately…oh my Lord…He wants this for all…and His love is so ravishing and wondrous and my heart and my soul is flooded right now…again blushing my dear…

And of course… Luke 11… reminded me of this precious song…that comes quickly to many…and the refrain is so strong…

This little light of mine…I’m gonna let it shine!

Won’t let satan blow it out…I’m gonna let it shine!

Shine all over the neighborhood…I’m gonna let it shine!

Hide it under a bushel…NO!…

I’m gonna let it shine…let it shine…let it shine…let it shine…

And this leads me to more scripture…and my continual questioning of ‘how many or how much of these revelations do I share?’…as much as possible?…only what flys off my fingers as I type and I edit…only after prayerfully considering instead of impulsively blurting? Hmmm, like Peter the rock...I’m learning.

And who do I share my light with?…anyone around…and I guess anyone who seeks…we are to shine the light for all to see…and as the darkness is revealed…and hidden things are exposed…it is not to shame or to blame or to hurt or even for me to do the change…but as the darkness is brought to light…those things in the recesses of the heart…are revealed and healed…and the truth is the cure…and the truth is His love and His light is so pure…and the hidden and dark things that we try to push down…really have not the power that we think that desire has over our thoughts or our lives…cause the light dispels the darkness…and it removes the revealed…we become holy …we become clean…in transparency…it’s not always easy to do…but once it’s swept clean…to fill it up with His Spirit…by meeting with Him…and relating mostly and continually to Him…and the dirt & the trash have no room to move back in! Praise God…the chains are being dragged away!

Luke 11:33-36—No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts in under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where its light can be seen by all who enter the house. Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is bad, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.

When I think I’m too much…or when I don’t do enough…as I read his love letters…he assures me…as I am listening to His voice…He tells me what to do…and as I hear and obey…and do what I do…and today it is living and loving and forgiving…and hanging on the cross with the nail holding me there…until I can say…yes, Lord forgive them for they know not what they’re doing…and mean it…not just say it…but believe it…and pray for the fear of the Lord to be taught and learned as I speak…and that not only them…but also that me…that I learn and continue to learn the reverence of the Lord…and trust God to speak…and trust God to comfort…and trust God to bring us back to life…after the death to our own selfish ambitions and desires.

Psalm 116…I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

Let everything that has breath…Praise the Lord!