Light Meant to Shine: Mark 4:21-25

In the dim interior of a Galilean home, Jesus reached for an image everyone knew: the small clay lamp that sat on its stand, its single flame pushing back the darkness.

"Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand?"

Of course not. No one wastes oil to hide light. The flame exists to illuminate—to help mothers find their children in the night, to guide feet across uneven floors, to make the invisible visible.

"For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open."