https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/31/opportunities-to-shine
Jesus’s teaching on the light and salt of the world in Matthew 5:13-16 should be familiar to most of us. It is basically that salt should remain salty because if salt loses its saltiness, it will be thrown away and trampled on the ground as an illustration that we need to maintain our saltiness to remain relevant and useful to others. As for light, the teaching is that light to be useful cannot be hidden the same way a town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Do you light a lamp and put it under a bowl? No, we put it up high so that it can illuminate the house for everyone. Thus we should let our light shine before others that they may see our good deeds and glorify the Father.
The point Jesus is making here is that we should take every opportunity to let the light of God inside us shine and do good deeds. Help others as much as possible. Be like a scout, do at least one good deed a day. Be nice and kind to others that as we shine for God, our Father in Heaven will be glorified. The thing is how do we glorify the Father and not ourselves in the process as the tendency is for people to identify with us if we are doing the good deed.
I think the best way to glorify the Father when we do good or help people is to always identify ourself as a believer. We must proclaim that we are a Christian and even better, we should say that we are doing this for God. The Lord prompted us to lend our helping hand and so here we are in obedience as well as based on the compassion and love and grace that He has put in our hearts. We are doing good because He has been good to us. He has blessed us tremendously, that is why we are helping others.
As a believer we cannot avoid being good and doing good. Our character is to be Christian-like and that means being good. But always remember to give all glory to the Father, to God. We shine our light as a beacon of hope to others so that the name of our Father may be glorified. Remember that. Don’t take the glory for ourselves.
Ronnie's Thoughts 