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HOW REFLECTIVE ARE YOU?

by Dorothy Incoom Botchwey
07/17/16
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HOW REFLECTIVE ARE YOU?

The above is a song that I and my colleagues learnt from my teacher (Miss Dorithy Nyarkoh), who taught me social studies during my second year in the junior high school. Because I loved music and thus wanted to know how to sing a lot of different kinds of songs, I was so happy to get the opportunity to learn this song. Though I understood the song, my main focus was not on the morals it teaches. I sang it for fun: I sang it when I was in elated mood; I sang it to explore the dexterity of my voice. Later when I grew up, my interest shifted to the morals it teaches. Whenever I sing this song, it teaches, inspires and even implores me to scream it loud for every other person to get to hear what the song says to them.  This song reminds me of Matthew 5: 14, 16 (Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid…. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven).
      When I ponder on both the song and the Bible verse, I begin to tell myself that, If I am the light of the world, then I need to reflect every corner for those in darkness to come to know how and where I tap my light from so that they can also tap into it and be redeemed from the bondage of darkness. Learning from the song as well as the scripture, a light is stronger than darkness. Therefore, unless the light is hidden, dim or quenched, darkness can never overcome it.
      Well, a person in darkness is the one who does not know God, neither has he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and personal savior. He could also be someone who knows that there exists a God but does not believe that Jesus is the savior: the one who lives his or her life without any reverence for God; the one who thinks that life is all about himself and that everything rest in his or her own abilities; the one who has not heard, or does not know, or does not understand, or does not want to understand that Christ Jesus saves and has the power to grant eternal life; the one who doubts the existence of God or says in his heart that there’s no God. (There are many other befitting characteristics of a person in darkness).
       On the other hand, if you are a light, that means you know and have accepted Jesus as your lord and personal savior. You then need to reflect the lifestyle of Jesus because Jesus himself is the light (John 9:5).  Just as we are joint heirs with Christ, if Jesus is the light (John 9:5) and He says “you are the light of the world” (Matthew 5: 14) (“you” referring to us), then we need to portray the same qualities He portrays __ a Christ-like lifestyle that attracts people’s attention. A lifestyle that speaks for itself and speaks well of us; the one that will pull people closer to us and consequently lead them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; a lifestyle that when we portray, would persuade others to want to know and to learn from us. These lifestyles, described as the “fruit of the spirit,” can be seen in Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Our light needs to reflect in the way we talk, walk, dress, and in our general behviours with others. We need to be genuine in our ways so that people closer or those watching from afar would love to know the source of our decency and to love to be part of us.

You can tell a friend today that, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE my dear.

Dorothy Incoom Botchwey

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