About shining out to the world:

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

Every person on earth can shine the light of God out to others. Every person on earth has the potential and the capacity to shine the love of God out to the world. However, to shine the light and love of God out to the world, you must be small�.you must be humble�and you must be contrite. However, our crazy world sends us the opposite message. Our crazy world sends us the message the bigger we are, the stronger we are, the more attention we have paid to us, then the more power and light we will have for ourselves.

A father and his small son strolled down the street in Chicago past a place where a skyscraper was being built. Glancing up, they saw men at work on a high story of the building. �Father,� said the little boy, �What are those little boys doing up there?� �Those are not little boys, son. They�re grown men.� �But why do they look so small?� �Because they�re so high,� his father answered. After a pause the boy asked, �Then, father, when they get to heaven there won't be anything left of them, will there?� It's so true. The nearer we come to Christ the less others see of us and the more they see of Christ in us.