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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Today's Frontline Devotion Friday, January 9, 2004 Prisms for God's Light |
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Frontline Devotion for Friday, January 9, 2004, by Brenda Kessler
Scripture:
I John 1: 5
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light;
in him there is no darkness at all.”
Several years ago my husband and I became interested in and fascinated by
lighthouses. Whenever we are in an area that has a lighthouse we check it out.
At times we even take special trips to see lighthouses as we did when we took a
motor trip to Nova Scotia and followed the “lighthouse trail.”
The lantern, the most important part of the lighthouse, is a complicated
mechanism that enables the light beam to carry far out to sea. The lens and
lamp of the lantern are sheltered in a glass and steel enclosure known as “the
lamp room.” Each lens-face has a large section of its own surrounded by several
rings of prisms. The prisms reflect light along the path of focus and make the
main light stronger. Some of the largest lenses have 200 prisms.
For hundreds of years, sailors have looked for the light beam from these
lighthouses to warn them that land was near or to point out dangerous rocks and
reefs against which a ship might be dashed to pieces.
When about sixty people of all ages and different cultures gathered at Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church on January 6 to celebrate Epiphany, I was especially
reminded of God’s light and our fascination with lighthouses. As I heard again
that the light from a star led the Magi to the baby Jesus and as I marveled at
the diversity among us, I was reminded that we are to be like the prisms that
are a part of the lenses in a lighthouse. Working together, we can all make
God’s light brighter. Working together to make God’s light brighter, we can
warn others of the dangerous places. Working together, our light can bring
others to Jesus just as the light brought the Magi to the baby Jesus.
We are prisms for God’s light!
Prayer: Dear Lord God, you are the light of the world. We thank you for that
light which penetrates all darkness. Make our lives reflections of your light
so that, working together, we may bring YOUR light to all the world. In Jesus
name we pray.
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