{"id":67488,"date":"2023-11-11T22:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67488"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:59:01","slug":"hiding-under-bushels-amidst-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67488","title":{"rendered":"Hiding under bushels amidst darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">OUR WORLD APPEARS TO BE OVERTAKEN BY DARKNESS. It is palpable in every sector of the society, just as the prophets foretold:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong>&#8220;For behold, darkness shall cover the earth<\/strong>&#8230; thick darkness the peoples&#8230; &#8221; (Isaiah 60:2a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong>Amidst this darkness in our world<\/strong>, Jesus calls and commissions us, His Disciples, to be lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong>&#8220;You are the light of the world&#8230;<\/strong>&#8221; (Matthew 5:14)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong>How come then<\/strong>\u00a0that with millions of &#8220;lights&#8221; (believers) in the world, the darkness still pervades?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">One reason could be that <strong>many &#8220;lights&#8221; are kept under &#8220;bushels&#8221; and &#8220;baskets&#8221; of church buildings and religious ceremonies.<\/strong>\u00a0They are not visible\u00a0 on the stands of our daily life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Another reason could be that *too many <strong>Christ followers&#8221;\u00a0 would rather showcase their brand of &#8220;light&#8221; where other\u00a0 believers (lights) exist<\/strong>\u00a0than burn in the dark corners of our world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong>The darkness hoovering over our world will only retreat whenever, and wherever, we Christ Disciples ARISE TO SHINE<\/strong>\u00a0(Isaiah 60:2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_231111_234928_240.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR WORLD APPEARS TO BE OVERTAKEN BY DARKNESS. It is palpable in every sector of the society, just as the prophets foretold: &#8220;For behold, darkness shall cover the earth&#8230; thick darkness the peoples&#8230; &#8221; (Isaiah 60:2a) Amidst this darkness in our world, Jesus calls and commissions us, His Disciples, to be lights. &#8220;You are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}