.. let His light shine...

The other day in my JOG group ( Journey of Growth, a mentoring ministry that was given to my beautiful, godly and wise pastor's wife) after reciting our memory work, sharing how God had spoken to us through the passage we were reading that week, accountability and prayer, we somehow ended up talking about what our names meant... and what was our verse, according to the book my friend owns...
Her verse turned out to be one of my most favorite verses :

Zephaniah 3:17

The LORD your God is with you,
       he is mighty to save.
       He will take great delight in you,
       he will quiet you with his love,
       he will rejoice over you with singing."

Not fair...I should have had this one  ;)....but good for her..
She was kind enough to look my name up for me..


Miriam...
Inherent Meaning: Dwelling in the Spirit,
Spiritual Connotation: Discerning one...
My verse : Matthew 5:14-16 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 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. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. ♥ ( original heart from my friend... she is cute like that :)

Now, isn't that amazing, it definitely totally confirmed all He has been revealing to me over the years of me being a Christian... all I have been hearing lately... Dwelling in the Spirit... this has been my prayer every morning for so long... Discernment, one of my spiritual gifts.. cool, and then the verse...
This has been my focus, shown to me by God for so long as well, and just lately it definitely has been the main focus.... no idea how the author of the book comes up with this, and really, it doesn't matter..

 Believing that God is sovereign over all Creation,
Isaiah 45: 6-7
I am the LORD there is no other,
I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.

this is what He wanted me to hear.... how kind and amazingly loving of Him..the attention to detail blows me away again and again...
so today, as every day, I am asking Him to let my light, which is really His light pouring out through the cracks in me ( cracks left by sin and wrong choices of myself and others ) SHINE today, so that HE would be revealed in me and glorified through me.. because NEWS FLASH...that's why we are here...