Shining the Light – Luke 8:16-21

“We offer you a simple exercise to help you receive more Divine Light. Lift your face and open your arms, ask to be filled with the Light of Pure Spirit. Then allow it [to] descend, sparkling your energy field with Light. Expand your consciousness to receive only God. Ground the physical body and your now sparkling clean energy into the great presence of the Earth Mother. Feel it, see it, allow Light to flow down your spine and legs into the earth. This draws away disruptive elements clinging to your energy field and allows you to exist in the pure light of heightened awareness.”  So says Shanta Gabriel, “inspired teacher, mystic and the author of The Gabriel Messages and The Gabriel Message Cards.”  This is not what Jesus intended when he urged us to receive the light.

“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”

Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.” But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”  (Luke 8:16-21 ESV)

If you want to hear the word of God you must be willing to do what it says.  Failure to do so would be like putting a lamp under something to obscure its light.  The purpose of light is to expose what is in the dark and that is what God’s word does.  If you fail to embrace the light by obeying it you will find God takes it away from you as a judgment, but if you shine the light in your life and into others’ lives you will be given more light as a reward from God.

When Jesus’ mother and brothers come to see Jesus he implies that they are not clearly embracing the light but trying to obscure it.  His true family is those who embrace the light, the truth of God’s word and obey it.  Like John the Baptist, perhaps, Mary, Jesus’ mother, does seem to be confused about what Jesus is doing and whether he is the Messiah.  It appears his brothers are not believers at all (see John 7:1-5).

Are you embracing and obeying the light, or obscuring it?  Are you true family of Jesus or not?  Take care then how you hear.

 

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