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In keeping with an earlier writing, I would invite you once again to think of yourself as a lighthouse. The Father is the builder, Jesus is the Light, and the Holy Spirit is the keeper.
The Holy Spirit’s job is to glorify Jesus and to work in the believer’s life to bring him or her into conformity with the life of Christ. When we invite the Holy Spirit to live in our heart we serve Jesus in several ways.
1. We are vessels. I believe that the collective body of Christ is the temple of the Holy Spirit. I Cor. 6:19-20 says, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
2. We are to show the way to others, just as the lighthouse does, by shining our light. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
3. Another of our functions is to warn others of impending danger.
“Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.” Luke 16:27-28 All scripture contains warnings to those who chose to go their own way, apart from the direction of our loving God.
4. We are to serve Jesus in any capacity that he asks of us. Joshua tells us “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Josh. 24:15
Though lighthouses of today are run electronically, in the old days the keeper was vital to the light. It could not shine if he was not there to light it. In his absence the lighthouse was subject to vandalism and ruin by weather and circumstances. So it is with us. We cannot be vessels or witnesses, we cannot warn others, we cannot serve Jesus if we fail to ask the Holy Spirit to inhabit and direct our lives. When the Spirit of Jesus lives in us, then we fulfill our mission on earth.
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Lighthouse Two
