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On this Easter morning, we begin our worship with:

Isaiah 60:1-3

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon

you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples;

but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And

nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Our time in darkness is over!  The glory of the LORD has come.  

And the commands to us are:

• "arise" (qûm) - We are no longer to be in the ashes of mourning, in the slumber of sleep, in the filth of sin . . . 
• "shine" ('ôr) - We are not simply to reflect God's glory, we are to be so intimate with it, that we too are told to participate and shine.

These commands imply that we could choose to do the opposite.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 
Do not quench the Spirit.

It is too easy, when the moment is inconvenient, to blow out the flame of the prompting Holy Spirit, to not reach out the hand, to not say the word, to not shine.

Holy Spirit come upon me.