Day 20: Curiosity

We are God’s chosen conduit for light. Like it or not, qualified or not. Sensical or not, too, because we’re at our conduit best when we step aside and let the light shine through:

Without delayWithout shadowWithout exception

But, I often hesitate. I mess up. I look for loopholes.

I felt a bit wearied reading some “light” passages in my Bible today. All I could see were the ways I am not. Then, I stopped and remembered some basic rules of reading comprehension (courtesy of the Troy Country Day School):

Author IntentSentence Structure

Check out this one from Isaiah 58:9-10.

If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger of malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

God’s not delivering these words with a finger wag; He’s extending an invitation to try and see. I accept the invitation best when I bring an open mind.

Can I shine light here? Can I shine light in this way? Can you remove this so I can shine more light? How far will this light shine?

What are all the ways you can use me to shine light today?

Who says God doesn’t like questions? He just wants us to ask good ones – the ones that come from a curious place and test him in the right ways.

Explore God’s “If you …” today. Until you try and see, you won’t know the “then …” And tell me about it! I’m hoarding encouragement like toilet paper right now.