As part of the labor I do to pay bills, I assist the man I work for with his welding. This usually consists of getting the leads out and ready, turning the machine on and then holding metal in place as he does the welding. Sometimes the position that I have to get in to hold things in place the way they need to be means that I can not completely turn away from the burst of light that goes with welding. I do shut my eyes and turn away as much as possible. Still, there are times when, even with my eyes closed, the light is visible behind my closed lids. I try not to let this happen often, but when it does, for a few minutes after the welding is done I continue to see a negative version of the shape of the light superimposed over the landscape. It's unavoidable. Light that bright can not be ignored and effects the way we see. It damages our vision.
Love is a lot like the light from welding. It damages our worldly vision. Even when we don't want to be changed and don't want to see it and spiritually shut our eyes, Godly love blasts through our closed eyelids and lights up the dark. Once we walk away the image of that love light floats before us over whatever else we try to look at. Jesus said that we are the light of the world. We are to shine His love to and for those who haven't experienced it and may even shut their eyes to it. Being a light to those in the darkness is not about pointing out their faults and how blind and lost they are. It's about burning with the love of God for them so much and so brightly that even the blind can see the love light up the dark, so that they can not stay the same, see the world the same way once they leave our presence. Blind someone with love today.
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