The Light Within
Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:6-8
Control your health in the kitchen, not the gym.
What you sow into your heart and mind becomes what grows in your life. It is easier to improve your life by controlling what is sown into it rather than continually fertilizing and tilling the soil in hopes that it will produce something. You will spend less time plowing through rocks if you don’t let them into your field in the first place. You will spend less time fixing bugs in your code if you don’t write them in there in the first place. A healthy spiritual life begins with what you eat. Once you get the food right, then you can move on to making sure you have proper digestion.
When you hide God's word in your life, you are gathering the oil for a light that will shine out of you.
When Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path,” the lamp needs to be continually burning to show you His path. For the lamp to continually burn, it needs a continual supply of oil. Filling your heart with God’s word prepares the oil that will keep God’s word lit in your life.The lamp of the tabernacle was to be kept burning continually (Exodus 27:20), so you must keep filling your life with God’s oil that gives your life its glow. 1 Peter 3:15 says, “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.” Having the lamp continually burning in your life is how you are able to always be ready to share the gospel.
It doesn't matter what you know if you can't or won't communicate it.
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.” (Luke 8:16). God did not choose to make you His tabernacle so you could keep His light to yourself. He calls you to shine out continually so others can see His light burning in you and turn to Him. You must begin by continually gathering the right oil for God’s lamp—His Word—and then continually fill the lamp so it can continually burn.