Dear Friends,

How can one let one’s light shine and give glory to God. Today’s devotional gives you some marvelous guidance. Read it and then practice it. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

• Matthew 5:14

  Matthew 5:14   English Standard Version (ESV)
  14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 5:14

“Sydney Smith, the witty clergyman, often said some very good things; and one I remember was, ‘Always make it a rule to make somebody happy every day, even if it is only by giving a child a farthing, or helping a poor woman to carry a parcel that is too heavy for her.’ There really is so much misery in the world that it is a pity for us to cause a child to cry, or even to cause a dog to go howling down the street. I think that we ought to make everyone happy wherever we are, for our Master went about doing good to all sorts and conditions of men; but certainly in our own family we who love the Lord should have the brightest eyes and the most cheering countenances.”

[Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit XLIII, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1897), p. 309]