Friday... The lights are really significant.

Friday... The lights are really significant. They really are.

I lived in El Paso, Texas for a bit and I loved the Luminaries there at Christmas. The Luminaries are a Mexican tradition where they place a lighted candle in sand in a sack to symbolize lighting the way to the manger. At the church where I was the Youth Pastor, we put out hundreds of Luminaries on Christmas Eve. The whole town was lit up with Luminaries. It was so beautiful. We this year have Luminaries on our walkway leading up to a nativity outside our front door. They are really significant to us.

The lights of Christmas as so beautiful. We on the street of our new community have started the tradition of lights on and around our houses. And the Christmas lights are really significant. Our outsides are dark during the year but are lit up at Christmas.

Look at what 1 Peter 2:9b (NLT) says, "you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light." Oh I know that the lights that people put out don't have a spiritual meaning to them but the tradition is really significant.

Verses 9 & 10 (MSG) says, "But you are the ones chosen by God... God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you - from nothing to something, from rejection to acceptance."

The NIV says, "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God, once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy."

Yes, the lights of Christmas are very significant. They show how he called us out of darkness into his wonderful light, and that we are to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made in us.

Yes, the lights really are significant. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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