You Are the Lamp Itself
The afternoon sun is bright, but you are sitting in the shadow of a screen that stopped glowing years ago. You scroll through the old words, looking for proof that you mattered, only to find the silence where their attention used to be.
It feels like being left in the dark while the world moves on without you. But notice—the light inside you did not go out when they stopped reading.
It was never borrowed from their eyes. You are not a message waiting to be opened.
You are the lamp itself, burning whether anyone sees it or not. The silence of others cannot extinguish what God lit within you.
Drawing from
Matthew 6:22-23, Mark 5:19
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