SHINE WHERE YOU ARE

SHINE WHERE YOU ARE


The name of Peter Carter is probably unknown to most people today. He was a 19th-century american Presbyterian Pastor. He wasn't as famous a pulpiteer as Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He didn't write great works of theology like his contemporary Charles Hodge. He never achieved the international recognition of Henry Ward Beecher of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. But he lived his faith in such a way that he encouraged hundreds of people to trust and serve Jesus Christ. Carter radiated the Savior's love to children as well as to adults. For example,a visitor asked some of the children in Carter's sunday school if they knew the good Shepherd. "Oh, Yes," they answered. "he's Pastor Peter Carter." Missionary-statesman Robert E. Speer said, "If all the reasoned arguments in support of christianity were destroyed, Peter Carter and the two or three men like him I have known would remain for me as its impregnablebais and defense."
Even if we think of our selves as rather ordinary believers, all of us can by God's grace be shinning linghts that "Glorify our Father in heaven" and point people to the savior (matthew5:16, Phillipians 2:14-16). We too can be flesh and blood evidence that Gospel is true.
I want my life to SHINE for JESuS
So that everywhere I go
The watching world will see He loves them
And his saving grace will know.

GOD PUT US ON EARTH TO SHINE AS LIGHTS, NOT TO GET USED TO THE DARK.