{"id":17008,"date":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","slug":"an-enlightened-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/pastors-word-for-the-week\/an-enlightened-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"AN ENLIGHTENED SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a quality that every Christian should have. Robert Louis Stevenson described it when he was speaking of a friend. He said, “When he comes into a room it is as though someone had lighted another candle.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, a Christian is an enlightened soul that is like a lit candle. That one candle can light a thousand others without diminishing its light. It lives to add warmth and show the way, and selflessly gives itself away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“You, LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.” Psalm 18:28<\/p>\n

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