Sonlight

I love the story of the boy who was on the sidewalk with a mirror, trying to reflect sunlight on a window of the house. When asked what he was doing the boy said, “My brother is sick and that’s his room. The doctor said he needs to have a lot of sunlight in his room, but the sun hardly ever shines in his window. I’m trying to reflect a little light there with this mirror.”

Jesus is the Light of the world (John 8:12) and we all need his light reflected into rooms where we live. Jesus also says to his people, “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). We are to “shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of truth” (Philippians 2:15-16). As the children of God we should be like that boy, bringing light into his brother’s room. The divine light of Jesus is always shining, but God uses human reflectors to get that light into the rooms of the sick. What kind of job are we doing as God’s reflectors?