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LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 14.

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LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.

By L. Flora Plummer

MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER.
A poor little Bible worker was once asked where she wished to go to labor. “Oh,” said she, “in the darkest part of the State; for there my little light will shine the brightest.” And she was right. A tiny ray of light, which would be lost amid the glow of many lights, or in the glare of a few brilliant ones, will shine out with remarkable force and power in the midst of the blackest darkness. This ought to be an encouragement to every one, no matter how unfavorable any one may regard his surroundings.
The following description from the Spirit of Prophecy shows us the appearance of this world as it is in the eyes of Heaven, and should cause us each to ask the question, Is my light shining bright, or has it grown dim?
Would that every one of you could have a view that was presented to me years ago. In my very girlhood the Lord saw fit to open before me the glories of heaven. I was in vision taken to heaven, and the angel said to me, “Look!” I looked to the world as it was in dense darkness. The agony that came over me was indescribable as I saw this darkness. Again the word came, “Look ye.” And again I looked intensely over the world, and I began to see jets of light like stars dotted all through this darkness; and then I saw another and another added light, and so through all this moral darkness the star-like lights were increasing. And the angel said, “These are they that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and are obeying the words of Christ. These are the light of the world; and if it were not for these lights, the judgments of God would immediately fall upon the transgressors of God’s law.” I saw then these little jets of light growing brighter, shining forth from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and lighting the whole world. Occasionally one of these lights would begin to grow dim, and others would go out; and every time this occurred, there was sadness and weeping in heaven. And some of the lights would grow brighter and brighter, and their brightness was far-reaching, and many more lights were added to it. Then there was rejoicing in heaven. I saw that the rays of light came directly from Jesus, to form these precious jets of light in the world.