The Lord’s Spectacles
Illustration★★★★One of the black students of the Southern Bible Training School of Dallas, Texas, was praying and besought the Lord as follows: “O Lord, please keep your spectacles clean so that sinners can see you through us, ‘cause you know, Lord, we are your spectacles.”
He did not know that the Greek word “theatron” means a show or display, but supposed it referred to eyeglasses. How we all need to remember that unsaved men can only see Christ through us; and if our lives are unclean, the vision of the Saviour will be blurred!
Henry Ironside, Illustrations of Bible Truth.
The point
Christians are God's visible display to the world; if our lives are unclean, the vision of Christ through us will be blurred.
Scripture
James 1:23-24Matthew 5:14-16
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting · Inspiring
To tell aloud
under a minute · 94 words