A lighthouse is a friend indeed for a lost ship to see from far away. But as illustrated in this picture, it is insufficient without some lower lights to show the boundaries of a harbor.
Jesus is the Light; he needs men and women who will point the way to a safe harbor. He needs the lower lights to guide the struggling seafarer safely to the shore.
ABOUT ME
Hello. To various folks I am Neat’nee, Mom, Grandma Neta, Gramma, Aunt Neta, Aunt Noni, Aunt Neno, and Aunt Neto (lots of varieties from little nieces and nephews). To some I’m more like “Didn’t you used to be my teacher?” or “Don’t I know you from someplace?” To you, perhaps, I am a Fellow Blogger. Not “fellow” like a male or a guy, but “fellow” like a companion or an adventurer. I would choose to be Grandma Blogger, and have you pull up a chair, my website before you, while I tell you of some days of yore. I have experienced life much differently than most of you. It was and is a good life. I hope to share nuggets of appreciation for those who have gone before me and those who come after me. By necessity you are among those who come after me and I will tell you of those who came before. Once upon a time in a little house on a prairie - oops, change that lest I commit plagiarism - and change that “house on the prairie” to “dugout on the prairie.” So my story begins...
3 Through Him (Jesus) all things were made, and without Him (Jesus) nothing was made that has been made. 4 In Him (Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. -John 1:3-4 BSB (emphasis added)
I want to pay tribute to wonderful people I have known, the wonderful country in which I live, the communities in which I have lived, the churches who have claimed me as their own, the God who sends shivers down my back when I really give him a portion of my time—well, maybe not shivers but tears flow easily in some of those most priceless times.
3 Through Him (Jesus) all things were made, and without Him (Jesus) nothing was made that has been made. 4 In Him (Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. -John 1:3-4 BSB (emphasis added)
Yes, thank you.
This was one of my favorite hymns as a child, in that I was small for my age until high school and keenly felt like a “lower light.” 😉