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Matthew chapter 5 verse 16 in the same way let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give

glory to your father who is in heaven. What a wonderful exhortation.

To lead, guide, direct your life, your approach to today.

To live in a way that the light of Christ in you shines before others, that people may see

your life and give glory to God.

Like this sounds wonderful and in a sense sounds simple,

but this goes against the grain of the way we are wired to think.

In this sense, we are wired to live so that people think good of us, well of us, so that people have

positive impression of us, like so much of our thinking of our mindset is built around this. Just subtly, almost

unconsciously, I'll just confess in my own life like I'm constantly wondered how did I come across to this person or that person or I wonder

what this person or these people think about me.

I preach a sermon and be like wonder what they thought about it.

I'll have an interaction with somebody and if I don't feel like they had a positive

perception of me that'll concern me or I'll need to go back and change that.

We are always thinking about what others think of us even if we say I don't care what others

think about us we still if we say I don't care what others think about us, we still wonder

what they think about us. It's just one picture of the pride in us that focuses on

ourselves and there's many different dimensions to pride.

And some people may say, I don't care what anybody thinks about me,

but pride just plays out in other ways along those lines.

So here in Matthew 5 Jesus is telling us to live

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