Daily writing prompt

Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.

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When I wake up in the mornings I stay quietly in bed and interview God. I ask Him to speak to me and ideas start to form deep in my heart. I lay there patiently, and those ideas begin to develop into sentences. Eventually I have several sentences going through my mind, so I get up and share them on social media and on my blog.

Here are some thoughts from this morning’s interview with God:

A primary reason that Christians stifle the Holy Spirit and hide the light that God has shined in our hearts is that we have had a lifetime of training to do so. In our Western culture Christians are typically trained on a weekly basis to sit passively in a meeting and to cover up the light that is shining in our heart while we hear one person speak. We’ve been trained to ignore the 50+ “one another” exhortations in the New Testament and instead of learning to minister to each other as led by the Spirit, we’ve mostly just learned to listen to a Sunday morning lesson.

A gathering of Christians should be a demonstration of God’s light shining through each person present. (1 Cor. 14:26.) If God has shinned in your heart, don’t hide His light. Let it be clearly seen. (2 Cor. 4:6.) The Holy Spirit needs to be allowed breathing room or His light dims and fades.

All Christ-followers in a gathering of the body of Christ should feel free to openly share the light that God has shined in their heart. However, our institutional religion tends to train Christ-followers to hide the light that God has shined in their heart — to sit back and stifle God’s Spirit. It’s time to boldly testify what God’s great and mighty Light is doing in your heart!

Jesus said: “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.” In Revelation chapter one, gatherings of the body of Christ are portrayed as lampstands. God didn’t shine in your heart so you can hide His light and be a passive audience member in a Christian gathering. He has called you to testify to His Light! It’s time to show and tell what God has done!

Testify about God's light!

If you don't open your heart
And share God's light,
What He does in you
Will be kept from sight.