Light Bring it to the Light

Light

Bring it to the Light

Chicken farmers candle their eggs to see if the egg is fertile

They bring it to light to see if the egg has life

We too need to bring to the Light our work to see if it is fertile and has life 

Do regular inspections bring your work to the Light of God’s Word

Let the Light expose every area of your life

Like building a house

What you do and what you say make a weak or strong structure

The nail may not be exposed but it is important

So let the Light reveal the small details because they too matter

Take time to candle your eggs to be sure you are working with fertile eggs 

Light

Bring it to the Light

My dad told me one of the many jobs he did

in his life time was working on a chicken farm.

There he learned to “candle chicken eggs”.

Many of us have no idea what

candling chicken eggs means.

 There are two purposes for eggs…

 The one is food and the other is to reproduce.

When reproducing chickens you

want to make sure they are fertile.

An egg that is not fertile will rot

and give off bad smelling gasses.

These eggs can even explode

and produce harmful bacteria.

 

Candling eggs is a process where

you bring the egg to the light.

The light allows you to see through the

shell to see if the egg is fertile or not.

When we hear the term “bring to light”

we think of revealing something.

Often we think of revealing

something inappropriate or illegal.

To “bring to light” is a process

of revealing information.

Like a yearend budget report…

A yearend report reveals how

the year actually played out.

The budget is made at the beginning

of the year to help achieve goals.

At the end of the year when the numbers

are in the light, reveals the achievement.

You may be on track,

you may have missed projections and

can learn what worked and did not work.

Then you may find monies were embezzled,

an inappropriate use of funds.

 

It is important to bring to

Light what we have done.

But often we do not bring to

Light the things we are doing.

 

We move forward not taking the time

to bring the information to the Light.

1 Corinthians 3 parallels the work

of our life to building a house.

The important thing to see as we look at the

building of a house or anything else is… 

Is its foundation.

“For no one can lay any foundation

other than the one already laid,

which is Jesus Christ.” verse 11   

When we bring to Light our works

or any other works, the first thing

to bring to Light is the Foundation.

If the Foundation is not Christ, there

will be a problem with the building.

So often in life we start inspecting

what is on the foundation without

checking out the foundation first.

There are a lot of good window manufactures

but put them in a structure on a sandy beach

and those windows will soon be in the water.

There are a lot of good ideas, programs, and plans,

but without the right foundation they will not last.

As you invest in building life, be sure your

work is on the right Foundation, Jesus Christ.

Even with the right Foundation, we can

build with materials that are not durable.

It is easy to see in the list of materials

in verse 12 which ones are lasting…

If any man builds on this Foundation using

gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw

There will be a “Day” that

will bring everything to Light.

A day that will test your work and mine.

The test will not be looking

for how hard you worked.

It will not be looking to

see how passionate you were.

When our work is brought to

Light only two things will matter…

On what Foundation did you build and the quality.

Bring our works to Light means

putting it through the fire.

There is very little that fire cannot consume.

I have always been amazed

when I sit around a camp fire.

Watching the fire consume a wood log.

It takes something and eats

is up as it is burning.

 You cannot see where the log is going

because it is disappearing before your eyes.

Where did that beautiful oak

or maple or black walnut go?

The color and grain of that wood

vanishes never to be seen again.

But gold and silver and even

precious stones don’t burn.

If there are impurities in them

the fire separates the impurities.

If you and I care about our work, we will

bring what we do to the Light regularly.

We will not wait till the end

when the Day of the Lord comes.

We must bring our works

to the Light of God’s Word.

Our inspection must

focuses on the Foundation.

The parable of the house built on sand

and the other on the rock…

 Tells us the houses could have looked

the same but the one on the sand failed.

Check the quality.

 As a builder, I installed

a Formica counter top.

 The dishwasher door leaked and the steam

swelled up the counter and now needs to be replaced.

Our motives…

 You may be as good as gold,

 but gold can have impurities,

which effects quality and value.

Do regular inspections bring your

work to the Light of God’s Word?

Let the Light expose every area of your life.

Because what you do and what you

say makes a weak or strong structure.

The nail may not be exposed

but it is important.

So let the Light reveal the small

details because they too matter.

Take time to candle your eggs to be sure

you are working with fertile eggs.  

      

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 NIV

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.