The Open Secret...

So today I had a meeting with one of my coordinators for the program I am a part of and it was quite a helpful chat. I went in there all guns blazing ready for her to make right the problems in our cohort. Funny enough the fact and words that came from here were true, that its up to me. I needed to be able to share these things to articulate these problems for the whole cohort to get past it. It wasn't about pointing fingers or pushing blame it really was about being light.

I found that such a helpful metaphor and it stuck with me the whole day as I chatted to my brother on skype. He was letting me in on the state of affairs of the company he is currently working for. How mismanagement and corruption had seeped into the very core of the leadership which resulted in the company being run down. I immediately got reminded of a verse that may be used for a conference we are having called 'The Open Secret'. Its The Message bible version of Mark 4:21-22:

Jesus went on: "Does anyone bring a lamp home and put it under a washtub or beneath the bed? Don't you put it up on a table or on the mantel? We're not keeping secrets, we're telling them; we're not hiding things, we're bringing them out into the open."

In encouraging him I said this about the mismanagement and corruption, "I guess its part of human nature and God calls us in Mark 4:22 to be the revealers of such atrocities not by seeking them out but by shining our light in dark places." It just rings so true in my heart now that its what God calls us to be. He doesn't say we are 'the army' of the world, or even 'the healers' of the world. He calls us the 'salt' and the 'light' of the world, amazing properties about these two things is that their impact is not really in their intensity but their inability to go unnoticed. A small pen light in the middle of the jungle in complete darkness can be seen from a mile away. Just thinking to myself now that, that's must have been one of the reason's demon's feared Jesus, because He was able to reveal them.

I believe as bearers of the good news that is what we must be, Light. We need shine the light of Jesus in our conduct, in the way we deal with our colleagues and school mate we don't quite get along with. We need to be light so that atrocities and misdeeds have no place to hide. Let's be bearer's of the gospel because that is the source of light.

love, peace and happiness

Tau