Deacon's Diary for Sunday-June,14th
deaconlwg | June 14, 2009 03:57
Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.
Shine on.
It all came about quite by accident. The switch plates out in the boy's clubhouse needed painting so I used the only thing I had laying around. Which just happened to be a can of fluorescent orange marker paint. It's just a clubhouse so the color didn't really matter. It turned out ok.
That is until it got dark out there. And we turned on their special black lights. Then the orange switch plates took on a life of their own. They glowed as if they had a source of light within them. Very cool! What started out as just an accident turned out to really spiced the joint up!
That little discovery got us thinking and creating other things. Now the walls of the clubhouse have all these fluorescent characters on them. You know, boy stuff. A blue fire-breathing dragon. A green alien and a comet. A bright yellow skull and cross bones. Lightning bolts and the such. All of which look alright in normal light, but they really come to life when the special light is turned on. Somehow they soak that special light up and really shine forth. Each of them are kind of dull and ordinary without it.
Maybe it's just the kid that remains within me, but I found it amazing how the fluorescent paint and the special light work together to create something entirely different. How one is just not the same without the other. How it takes a special paint to reflect that special kind of light.
That little clubhouse discovery got me to thinking about something else, too. Of how we as Christians can get somewhat of the same effect when we cloak ourselves in the fluorescence of the the word of God. When we prepare oursleves in such a way that the special light of Jesus Christ can be soaked up by us and we can really shine forth like He intended us to.
In John 8:12 Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness." In His light we can become something entirely different. That is as long as we are made out of the right stuff.
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