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DON'T DIM YOUR LIGHT!

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Dear Young Adult, there is something that I really need you to know. I wish I could open up your head and engrave what I am about to say in your brain. I  need you to know and I am putting this in block letters for emphasis that IT IS NOT IN YOUR PLACE TO FIX THE INSECURITIES OF OTHERS!  Oh you don't get it? You have so much on the inside of you but just because of what people will say, you keep holding back. You know that you are a star but you just keep hiding under the shadows because you don't want people to think that you are doing too much. If I may ask... please, which part of Matthew 5:16 do you not understand? "Let your light SO SHINE before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." This is a command from Christ to you. It is a very clear and concise one: That you SO SHINE , not to yourself but before men. Why is it important that you shine? So that men will see your good work that will glorify God. We all know that commands ...

Know God For Yourself!

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Dear Young Adult, knowing God for yourself is the very best thing you can do for yourself now that you are young. I am stressing "For yourself" because a lot of us know about the God that we have been told. We know about the God that our pastors talk about in every church service. We know the God that our parents told us about.  Sadly, we do not know this God for ourselves. We know about Him but we do not know Him.  Instead, when we talk about God, we talk about Him based on what we've read and heard about Him and rarely ever from a place of real knowledge and revelation of His person and His being.  Dear Young Adult, You have to get to that point where you are tired of talking about God in the third person. Jesus Culture in their song You Won't Relent, led by Kim Walker Smith, sang these lines: "I don't wanna talk about You  Like You're not in the room Wanna look right at You Wanna sit next to You." This should be the desire of every heart, especial...