This light that lightens every man who comes into the world has instructed us to so let it shine, so we should grasp the significance of doing just that. It begins to grow that little seed of faith -light-. We can not limit its growth or realize what the Father has in store for us.

As a nation, we have fallen into the thinking of the Babylonian system in which we live, that fame, success, popularity, and notoriety is to be sought in life to be somebody. Whereas, in God's Kingdom it is the small seemingly insignificant things that grow and are exalted to a status recognizable by Him and others. Those who are no reputation rejected of this world, He takes to confound the wise and the things that are. mustard seed

In trying to learn of God the Bible gives us word pictures, symbols, and anthropomorphic language for us to try and just began to comprend God, but it is pointing to receiving His Spirit before we can start to come to an understanding, knowledge of His Awesome majesty. It is only an introduction to us coming to repentance and submitting unto Him before we start to see our insignificance as carnal or the old natural man.

God has been contiually calling His own people a stiff-neck, stubborn headed people, who will not listen to His word -instruction, advice, counsel- given to them by His Prophets. In the New Testament Paul tells us there's a time coming when men will not endure sound doctrine, which is the falling away-the great Apostacy-. That time seems to be right now more than ever, making His true believers to contend for the faith once delivered unto the Saints, seeing there's a famine of hearing the word, or really doer's of the word, Jesus say they honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.

To give godly counsel we must make the intentional effort to hear the question or see the circumstance from the perspective of the eternal paradigm. It can be a matter of life and death, success or failure eternally. True peace and joy that can only come from God can only be had through the fruit of the spirit from following wise and Godly counsel.

In learning from who to receive counsel, we have to have the mind of God to help us in discerning proper counseling. We are unlike God who did not receive nor either needed counsel from anyone, we have to gather knowledge through the way God has chosen to pass His wisdom on to us. There's safety and wisdom in the multitude of the right counsel but death and destruction in the midst of bad counsel.

After we are born again we learn that it is up to us to magnify the Lord, for if He be lifted up, He said He would draw all men to Him. It is He we would like for others to see and form a relationship with Him, through repentance, the new birth and regeneration. We come to love His word and abide in it, for it is enduring and eternal, able to sanctify us, receiving the power to become the Sons of God.

We remained focused on the nurturing of the sheep by the Shepherd. Which God said He was going to feed His sheep, in which we referenced Jesus doing for the body of Christ -His Church-, the called-out ones, in which they are feed the word of God. As the true Shepherd He truly nurtures them, with all maternal or should I say paternal care one could receive. The tenderness with which He lavishes upon them shows that love, that lays down His life for the sheep.

To feed God's sheep, we have to have the fruit of the Spirit to develop His tenderness, and true concern, ability to empathize, and to enter into the lives of the sheep. Just as partaking of flesh and blood to be able to be touched with the feelings of our infirmities it takes the guidance and leading of the Holy Spirit to write the word of God on our hearts.

Jesus Christ who is our Chief Shepherd will gather His sheep that have been scattered, and nurture, feed, and cause them to rest and in peace. He will cause of to be feed by pastors after His own heart, where we will grow and be strengthened through the eternal life that His word gives. We will eat of the fruit of the tree of life, and dwell on His Holy Mountain.