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Reflecting Christ’s Light While Waiting for Him

Shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life.

Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master.
Philippians 2:15–16 ; Luke 12:35–36

Reflecting Christ’s Light While Waiting for Him
I have a connection with Christ in the light; I have not only to look away from things present and see that bright light up there, but I have to reflect it down here. I may be a very bad reflector; “never mind,” Christ says. “Go on, I give the power; I know you are nothing in yourself, and that you are in the place where it is night; but go on giving out light; soon you will be in God’s day.” That morning without clouds will usher us into the light where Christ now is. He is the Bright and Morning Star.

The night may be very dark, but the darkness does not reach up to the Bright and Morning Star. No cloud can cover Him: soon He will shine out. We are only on sufferance here, on our way to what lies farther on. He is our Bright and Morning Star; we shall see Him. He will take us up and guide us to the Father’s house, before the sun shines out. It is that hope which gives one courage to go on in the midst of failure. To be sure, I have failed. Have I been a good light reflector? No! but I am to go on as I can till He comes, till I see Him as the Bright and Morning Star. It is not that we look for bright light reflectors at His coming—though we ought to be such—nor the expecting to see lamps filled with oil; but the Holy Spirit in the Bride wanting Him to come.

Does He hear you cry, “Come, Lord Jesus”? Are your hearts so going forth as to be ever saying, “Come, Lord Jesus”? You need not look around and wait for another; you may say it to Him. Ah! Cultivate communion with Christ in connection with that word, “Come!”—looking at ourselves as part of the Bride still on earth, and the Spirit in her saying, “Come!”

G. V. Wigram

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