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Let Your Light So Shine

I'm sitting here preparing to teach on leadership tomorrow in Church, and so I've been thinking. How often do I think of myself as a leader? Seldom. I feel that even when in positions of leadership, I'm not very likely to attribute that title to myself. I'm just little ol' me, just plodding along, making the best of life. But a leader? I'm not spectacular enough to be one of those. Am I right in assuming that I'm not the only one who feels that way? Then I read Matthew 5:14-16, and in the context of leadership, it took on a different meaning for me. "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 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. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." The Lord did not give us light purposelessly. The Leader of the Universe...