City

I have been hearing the same phrase quoted from the Bible recently, and it has really pricked my imagination.

You may have heard this before?

How in Matthew 5 verse 14 Jesus said that His ultimate plan for you and me is that we be the light of the world.

That sounds pretty interesting doesn’t it?

But listen to what he continues says in the same breath essentially…

“A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.”

Some versions use the word “city” instead of town.

It struck me when I was meditating on what that means for me right now, that we are not supposed to be small. That you are not a house or a suburb...but God would like to turn who you are and your potential

influence into a something city sized!

That you become soooo big that nothing could hide you even if you tried or something else tried.

Now that is a staggering thought!

Ok, so you now know you need to be bigger...so how do you get bigger?

In the natural it is real simple. You eat more.

But if you want it to be a healthy bigger, then you don’t just eat more, you exercise and you train your muscles.

To turn yourself into a city…

You need to ingest more of God.

Take in His Word and His Presence.

But to not just blow up in God, you then take it a step further and Worship Him.

Worship in the literal sense of having a worship lifestyle.

That lifestyle is simply serving, being God honouring.

Getting involved where ever you can, being light.

Turing up to Church and loving others and loving God through the times we worship together.

It is not complicated.

It is just choice.

If you want a city you build it one brick at a time based on a carefully considered plan.

If you want to be a city, you do the very same...

Something to think about…