All right, so as we celebrate the start of another 12-month cycle of serving in our community,

serving in our cities that we live, and doing what Jesus called us to do, which is to live beautiful lives here as in heaven,

with the mentality of heaven, but doing so here on earth.

We're going to anchor our hearts on a passage of scripture that comes to us in Matthew chapter 5.

Matthew chapter 5, Jesus speaking,

and I'm calling this message by the way,

a grain of salt and a beam of light.

A grain of salt and a beam of light. A grain of salt and a beam of light. A grain of

salt and a beam of light. Bho!

Bho! Matthew 5!

You are the salt to the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?

It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

You are the light of the world.

A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket.

But on a lamp standstand and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so

shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Now one more scripture if you would humor me from Psalm chapter 34 verse 8 where we read oh taste and see that the

Lord is good blessed or oh how happy, literally in the original language,

is the man who trusts in him.

Here's my theory.

My theory is that everybody can find what their soul is longing for in a relationship with Jesus.

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