keep your lamp burning

Today in the One Year Bible, we read from Leviticus 24:1-25:46. God instructs Moses to keep the lamps burning in the presence of the LORD. And this is important for us today, too.

See, it's good for us to realize that the good that we do in this life we will probably not know about until we get to heaven. I mean, we know SOME of the good we do. But probably just a glimpse. A good example of this is St Therese of Liseux. She lived a very quiet life, away from the world, cooped up in a cloister with a handful of other nuns for the short 24 years of her life. She accomplished "so little" in her lifetime that the nuns who lived with her weren't sure what to say at her funeral because her life seemed so ordinary and unimpressive.

But after her death, the little book she wrote (under obedience) called "Story of a Soul" has changed the lives of millions of people. Therese never saw the amazing change her life made in the world, at least she didn't see it before she died.

So keep your lamp burning. You don't know (it's better if you don't) what great good in this world that the light from your lamp will cause.

God, thanks for teaching us to keep our lamps burning. Please use our light to change the world.