You have a job to do. A job that often gets twisted in a way that either puffs you up with pride making you think you’re better than someone else, or your job gets twisted in a way that makes you carry the burden of changing someone else. Let’s be clear – saving someone is not your job. Girl, you are not Jesus. Nor can you make everyone happy. You’re not a taco.

Your job is simply this – SHOW THEM JESUS. In this world, you reflect the light, the love, the power of Jesus. That’s your job. How it is received and what others do with that simply isn’t your business.

Gosh, we get that all twisted, don’t we? And when we do, it becomes more about us than about the glory of God. And it becomes our burden to carry, our stress to worry about, and our pressure to make them change.

Moses was called by God to speak truth to Pharaoh. The truth was, Pharaoh was holding God’s people as slaves. The truth was if Pharaoh didn’t let God’s people go, terrible things were going to happen to him and his people, the Egyptians. Moses job was to be a representative of God to Pharaoh, but his job was not to change Pharaoh, convince Pharaoh or save Pharaoh. Anytime Moses got his job twisted and took on undue pressure and stress, he wanted to quit in frustration. Yeah, that’s what happens when we make things about us instead of about God.

First, Pharaoh had refused to listen to God. Exodus 5:2, Pharaoh declares, “Who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.” So, that’s when God uses his servant Moses to reflect his glory, speak his words, and deliver his message for him. Exodus 7:1, Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pay close attention to this. I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh.”

When Pharaoh wouldn’t acknowledge God, he continually sent him an example in Moses. A man he could see and hear who represented God. Moses didn’t have to come up with the plan on his own, he simply had to represent God. Moses didn’t have to speak words of his own, he simply had to represent God. Moses didn’t have to change Pharaoh, he simply had to represent God. And God made Pharaoh to see God in Moses.

My friends, that’s our job. As followers of Christ, we are to represent him. Your mission today is to show others Jesus. You, my friend, you are God’s love letter for the world to read. It’s YOU God wants to use for the person who will never read his Word otherwise. You get to bring Jesus to that table! You get to bring Jesus to that room. You get to bring Jesus to that gathering. That’s your job.

2 Corinthians 3: 2-3, Paul writes and says, “Your lives are a letter everyone can read and recognize. You are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This ‘letter’ is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Is is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.”

What Christ has done in your life is now his letter to the world. You are his example. You are the letter they will read, and you get to show them Jesus simply through the way you live.

What a big job we have! And the moment you put the weight of that job on your shoulders, then it makes it about you more than about Jesus. That’s not the way to do your job. You aren’t writing the letter. Jesus is writing the letter. It’s a letter written in your heart. As you live from the heart, everyone can read and recognize the author of your story. Your entire life then points to Jesus. And THAT is what we’re here to do as his disciples.

How someone interrupts the letter Jesus has written in your heart is not your problem. What a single person does with the letter of your life is none of your business. If it were, then it’s about you. This isn’t about you. This is about the work of Jesus and your willingness to let his work show in you.

Much later in the book of Exodus, Moses goes up to a mountain and comes face to face with God. He spends time with God. And when Moses comes back down from the mountain, his face was radiant. The glory of God was shining in Moses face. His encounter with God on that mountain changed him. It changed his presence. He literally reflected the light of God. And this isn’t just some Old Testament miracle that doesn’t apply to us today. No, actually, the same thing happens to us now. When we spend time with God, our face then gets to shine his glory! We become the letter perfect strangers read and learn about Jesus! We become the letter our loved ones who have strayed read and experience the life-changing love of Jesus. Not because of who we are, but because of who HE is in us.

Later in 2 Corinthians 3, Paul writes in verse 17-18 (MSG), “Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become more like him.”

My friend, are you brighter than you were last year? Are you becoming more beautiful? I’m not talking about your botox, I’m talking about your heart. Is your inward life more beautiful today than it was a year ago? If you are growing in relationship with God, spending time with him and seeking him, this is naturally happening. You’re not manufacturing beauty, beauty is growing within you. You’re not manufacturing light, the light of God is reflecting from him onto you for others to see. It’s not about your light – it’s about HIS LIGHT. You are simply a reflection.

So, your face changes. Your face becomes radiant like Moses’ face after his time with God on the mountain. Your face shines with the brightness of God’s face. How absolutely amazing is that?!!!!!

Paul also wrote in Philippians 2 that God is working IN you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. It’s not coming from you, it’s coming from God! God is changing your heart, then he’s giving you the power and strength to change your life! And as you do, you become his bright light in a world of darkness. Not your own light, but simply a reflection of his light.

It’s not about you. It’s about Jesus in you.

Don’t assume the responsibility of having to say the right thing to save someone. Remember, that’s Jesus’ job, not yours. You’re not the savior. You’re not even the light. You’re a representative of the savior and a reflection of his light. Assuming the responsibility in your own power will leave you exhausted and disappointed.

Paul seems to know something about reflecting the light of Jesus instead of trying to be the light. Remember, Paul was a man who’s life had been radically changed by an encounter with Jesus as he was marching down a road on his way to kill Christians. Jesus did a radical work in his life, now Paul’s entire life was a letter telling the story of Jesus’ saving power. It wasn’t up to him who read the letter or how they received it. It wasn’t about his light, it was about Jesus’ light reflecting in him. His job was to show Jesus. Paul writes in Colossians 1:27 (TPT), “Living within you is Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it!”

If you allow Jesus to work in your life, you become his TREASURE CHEST of hope. Your life is filled with the riches of his glory and God wants everyone to know about it. You’re not given this treasure chest to hide, you’re given this treasure chest of hope to share. Again, God wants everyone to know about his glory that’s inside of you!

Moses had God’s glory inside of him. His job was to represent God to Pharaoh. Moses became the Bible Pharaoh had never read. Moses became the light of God that Pharaoh could either receive or reject. Either way, Moses job wasn’t to convince or change anyone. Moses’ job was to be the treasure chest of hope everywhere he went. His face was to shine the light of God, and it did!

Did Pharaoh change? No. Did Pharaoh listen? No. But that wasn’t Moses’ job. That’s God’s business. And God used it all for his radically good, miraculous works!

Maybe you’re stressed and feeling all the pressure because you’ve forgotten your role in this is to simply reflect the light of Jesus. You don’t have to manufacture the light. You don’t have to say the right things. You don’t have to have all the answers. Your only job is to let others see Jesus in you.

I have a sticker on the front cover of my Bible that says, “Lord, let them see YOU in me.” That’s my one mission. It’s not about anyone seeing me. It’s not about my words or my works. It’s about Jesus IN ME. There’s no pressure in that. There’s no exhausting work in that. There’s a freedom of being a treasure chest of hope, and the treasure isn’t even mine – it’s all God’s and I just get to hold it and reflect it.

This isn’t about you. Don’t make it about you.

This isn’t up to you. Don’t insert yourself.

This is about the light and power of God, and that lives IN YOU as a follower of Jesus. You are his letter. Now, just don’t hide it!

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