🕯 Day 19 – The Flame Is for Others

📖 “You are the light of the world… let your light shine before others.” – Matthew 5:14–16

🔍 1. Exegetical Read

Jesus’ words in Matthew 5 are not poetic suggestion—they are identity statements. “You are the light of the world.” Not you might be, or you will be when you’re mature—but you are.

And light, by nature, is not hidden. It reveals. It confronts darkness. It provides direction.

Jesus continues: “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” The goal of the light is never self-glory. It is reflection—pointing others back to the Source.

The light you carry was never meant to stay private. It was meant to pierce darkness.

🔁 2. Connection to the Week: Ready the Fire

This week has been about readiness—but readiness is not just about you. It’s about your posture for others.

The oil was personal. The altar was private. The fire was intimate. But now the flame must travel.

You carry something sacred—but it’s not supposed to be hidden under shame, fear, or self-preservation. Your fire is meant to illuminate someone else’s path. The places you’ve been refined may become someone else’s rescue.

Don’t underestimate what your light carries. Especially in a midnight hour.

💡 3. Reconciling Moment

Someone near you is still stumbling in the dark. And they don’t need your perfection—they need your flame.

You weren’t restored just to be whole. You were restored to be seen—as a testimony of the altar, the oil, and the One who lit the fire in you.

So burn humbly. Shine clearly. And let the fire point back to the God who met you when no one else saw.

✍ Prompt:
Who around me needs the light I now carry?