How God is in Business

by Dallas Willard

discipleship is not just a matter of learning what He says, but learning to do everything that I do in the way that He would do it if He were I. So I have to have a pattern of discipline in my life that enables me to steadily feed and nourish my soul and my body with the things that will enable me to be God’s person where I am. I’m not talking about being the local Christian nag. I’m talking about being the kind of person in whom God shines so brightly that people wonder what’s going on. You remember Jesus’ words, “Let your light so shine before men, that they will see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16 NASB). You want a kind of light and power living in you that is so great that people never make the mistake of thinking that it comes from you. Jesus said that, “a city set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). We don’t have to nag. We don’t have to be sure that we get in our negative points. Very often it’s quite sufficient to take the stand we need to for Christ by simply remaining in cheerful non-compliance with evil. Simply don’t participate. When we’re expected to lie, we don’t lie. When we’re expected to gossip, we don’t gossip. When we’re expected to hurt other people who have hurt us, we don’t do that. You see, that’s just a part of what comes from this light of Christ in us.

what a beautiful description of what it means to light in this world