I want to tell you about an amazing story regarding my wife. Her name is Naomi, and she used to work at Whole Foods. Before I tell you the story about her, I just want to share the scripture in Isaiah 60:1. It says, “Arise and shine for your light has come.” And then Jesus in the gospels, He says that if you’re following Him, you are a city on a hill, you are the light of the world. And so we’re meant to shine.
My wife, Naomi worked at this place called Whole Foods and she was a cake decorator. And when she got hired, her boss found out that she was a Christian and he warned her, “Hey, I just want you to know everyone in here, they’re not Christian, there’s some atheists, some anti-Christians. Most of us are Democrats or something.” And, she was working with people that a lot of folks in our world, if you’re a Christian, they tell you to like be careful. And my wife, as her boss was telling her this was like, “Yeah, okay, that’s fine. I can work here.” So she worked there for months and close to a year. And, she didn’t go to work and try to tell people about Jesus. She didn’t go to work and tell them that they were wrong or try to fix their lifestyles. She just went to work and she worked hard. She decorated her cakes and when conversations would arise, she would just talk about whatever the situation was and share her heart. And she did this for months.
One of the most profound things her coworkers learned about her was that she didn’t have sex until our wedding night. And they were just like, “What? Are you serious?” This is mind blowing to them. On one particular day, she was working with one of her coworkers and they were having another discussion and her coworker stopped in the middle of their work and in the middle of their discussion, and she looked at my wife and she said, “Naomi, I want to tell you something, you are the healthiest person I’ve ever met.” Now I want to remind you, this is not in a church. This is not a Christian telling a Christian that. This is a non-Christian, a non-believer, maybe atheist, telling my Christian wife, “You’re the healthiest person I’ve ever met in my life.”
And this is what I get from that story. We are meant to bear the fruit of Christ, not so that we can flaunt it, but so that the world can see it and taste it and see it. And my wife in that moment was a city on a hill, the light of the world. She was arising and shining, because the light of the world was shining through her.
And so I want to release a grace and an ease over you today to just be you in your skin and let Jesus shine through you. So Lord, I just thank you for anyone who’s watching this right now, and I ask, Lord, for the same grace that’s on my wife to walk with you to be released upon them. And that they would know that they can arise and shine, that they can be a city on a hill, the light of the world, and that they don’t have to try to do that, they are that. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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