I had been making dipping candles. They are so-called because the way to make them is to dip it, wait a few seconds for it to cool and then dip again. And this goes on for 20 dips.
A revelation came to me.
As we are called to be the 'Light of the world'. We are the wick, we could easily just burn down as quickly as we are lit (without the wax). But God is the wax that surrounds us, layer by layer, with love, patience, grace, delight, mercy etc.
And so only with these can we burn more brightly, with His grace, his wax. Burning slowly, brightly.
At the end of my life, with his grace, encouragement, mercy, we would have been able to be His light. And even after we are totally gone, He would still be there, the wax still there at the bottom of the candle.
Without him we can do nothing.
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