{"id":1716,"date":"2013-11-10T07:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:34:58","slug":"the-greater-the-darkness-the-brighter-our-lights-must-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/the-greater-the-darkness-the-brighter-our-lights-must-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greater the Darkness, The Brighter Our Lights Must Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven&#8221; (Matthew 5:16).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Candles_Burn_Brighter_03_978x553.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Candles_Burn_Brighter_03_978x553.jpg\" alt=\"The Greater the Darkness, The Brighter Our Lights Must Shine\" width=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Candles_Burn_Brighter_03_978x553.jpg 978w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Candles_Burn_Brighter_03_978x553-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Candles_Burn_Brighter_03_978x553-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Believers Are Salt and Light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>13<\/sup> \u201cYou are the salt of 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.<\/p>\n<p><sup>14<\/sup> \u201cYou are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. <sup>15<\/sup> Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. <sup>16<\/sup> Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven&#8221; (Matthew 5:13-16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven&#8221; (Matthew 5:16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,54,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-scriptures","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}