November 20, 2025 – Let Your Light So Shine

Let Your Light So Shine
November 20, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    Have you ever thought about how much light one little match can give off in a very dark room? On special occasions, our church has had a candlelight service to highlight a special part of the service. Often, we begin with the sanctuary dark and just one person lighting one candle and then passing that flame on to another, then another, and so on until everyone in the room has the candle they are holding burning brightly. However, in a dark room, just one little match seems so very bright. With all the other candles ablaze, that one little match does not seem to carry such a glow. However, let everyone blow out their candles and then strike that match, and it seems to light every inch of the room. The brighter the room, the less the light of the match shows.

 

     So, it is with our lives. If we keep ourselves clean from the sins of this world and watch how we live our lives, the candle of the spirit does not seem to make a glaring show as God searches our hearts. However, let sin come into our lives, and the brightness that has been burning as a candle of God’s character, which He has placed in you, seems dim, or even to have been blown out. It is during those times in our lives that the searching candle of God seems blindingly bright as it searches our hearts and finds darkness there.

 

     Sin blows out the candle of love, as sin only thinks of itself and not others. Sin blows out the candle of peace as it causes uneasiness in our lives. Sin blows out the candle of joy as it robs us of the joy we once had when walking close to God and other believers. Sin causes our lives to be dark, dreary, and lonely. Our verse in Proverbs 20:27 says the spirit of man is the candle that God uses to see into the heart of man and expose the darkness to drive it away. What does God see in you today?

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

   As God searches your heart, will you allow Him once again to light up your life? Doing away with greed and selfishness, and once again lighting the candle of love. Finding the peace and joy you once had and allowing God to light those areas of your life again. Let Jesus be the Light of Your Life.

 

How can the joy of knowing and serving God light up your life once again?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: November 20, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Ezekiel 23 / Psalm 118:15-29
Proverbs 20 / Acts 25

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Ezekiel 17-20  /  James 2