praying: to be a candle

I am going to start writing some blogs about what the Lord is doing in my life and heart, and through that, talk about what I am praying for. Right now He is working in a lot of different ways, but my biggest prayer has been “Lord, help me to become more and more like a candle”

I heard this analogy over a month ago from someone close to me and it shook me up big time (he doesn’t know how much this did in me so if you’re reading this hey lol :). Basically the example was about humility and what it looks like to be truly and deeply humbled. We should strive to be like a candle: it’s not a glamourous thing to become, but it exemplifies the true essence of “I become less so that He becomes more”. 

When we become like a candle it means that we are literally melting and becoming smaller not so that we produce light, but we magnify the source of light.  The candle doesn’t melt for its own glory or to produce its own light and recognition, but it does that so the source of light can become greater and it can reach further through the candle. The candle burns for a purpose: to be an illustration of the light.

When we make the active choice to humble ourselves every day we are creating a space for the Holy Spirit to work and for the Lord to receive glory, which is the ultimate goal. We are choosing to melt and become less so that his light can become more through us. We are choosing to become like Jesus, who spent his whole life “being a candle” and exemplifying the Lord’s plan and glory.

I want to be humbled to a point where everything in my life magnifies Him and brings Him glory. I want to be at a point of such deep humility that I can find joy in “melting” because it is through that that I am able to love sacrificially and reach the full magnitude of everything He has for me.

I am definitely not there yet, nor am I anywhere close, but I am praying and drawing near every day to the one who can transform and restore me radically. I am working towards the goal of being just like our built-in and perfect example, and through that, I am being molded and shaped every day into the person that God has intended for me to be.

There’s a question that I heard on a podcast recently that has been on my mind a lot that I want to leave you with: “Jesus gave up everything to be like me… What am I willing to give up to be like Him?”

His love & mine,

Bree

update: its 8 months later and now I have a candle tattooed on my wrist!! the Lord is still using this in my life—crazy how he works!