• Our problem today is not the presence of darkness, but the absence of light.
• When we go to bed at night we don’t turn the darkness on, we turn the light off.
• We have the wrong image of “light” today - we think of a candle.
• The wind can blow a candle out.
• We need to replace the image of a candle with that of a coal - like a burning ember in a fire pit.
• The same wind that extinguishes the candle’s light actually ignites the coal’s light.
• The devil wants to extinguish our light, but if we hide God’s Word in our hearts like Jeremiah, it will become like coals inside of us.
• The very act of the devil trying to blow it out will actually ignite it!
• God’s fire is either going to eat us up or heat us up - it all depends on our dedication to reading His Word and our surrender to obeying it.
• How do we know if we’re a coal?
• By how we respond when we’re persecuted.
• Candles can shine quickly, but coals take time.
• Candles shine on the outside, but coals shine from the inside out and get brighter the harder the wind blows.
• Let’s be coals!