Put Your Lights On

Hey now, all you sinners
Put your lights on,
Put your lights on
Hey now all you lovers
Put you lights on,
Put your lights on

Here’s an idea that takes off where my last post ends. When you pray, pray with your eyes open. You might just be the answer to someone’s prayers. Generosity is a part of money management. It is also a part of a good life. The rapper Everlast wrote the song Put Your Lights On after suffering a heart attack. When life or death is a crap shoot, it tends to focus what is important, becoming a light in a world filled with darkness.

There's a darkness,
Living deep in my soul
I still got a purpose to serve
So let your lights shine,
Deep into my home
God don't let me lose my nerve,
Don't let me lose my nerve

If you are still breathing air you still have a purpose to serve. Open your eyes turn your lights on. Look for opportunities to be a blessing. Don’t limit your vision to money. Give your time, your treasure, your emotional energy, and the gift of your open heart, wherever the Spirit leads.

'Cause there's a monster,
Living under my bed,
Whispering in my ear
And there's an angel,
With a hand on my head
She say I got nothing to fear

As you learn to open your wallet, your eyes, and your heart, God will give you more responsibility and more opportunities. Just remember there’s an angel with a hand on your head whispering in your ear, “You have nothing to fear.”

John Chapter 9

[30] The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
[31] Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
[32] Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
[33] If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
[34] They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
[35] Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
[36] He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
[37] And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
[38] And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
[39] And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
[40] And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
[41] Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.