They saw it before I knew it ever existed and they resented every part of it, they also resented me as well. They wanted it but they can’t have it, so all that was left was for them to undermine it, to badmouth it and invalidate it’s existence. Rather than acknowledge the giftings and give thanks to the generous giver of all things, they labelled it, they called it pride and arrogance. They felt it existed to thwart their own giftings, they fail to see that each had his own path and that He giveth to all severally. How they all gathered in their numbers to question the source of the shine. How they tried to replicate it to no avail. How they tried to dim it and destroy it to give their envious soul some peace. The shine went from one level of luminousity to another higher level. How effortless it shone, how frustrated they are? The war, the battle, the confusion, the unease and the restlessness all because of the shine. Yet it did not end there, all the abuse, the tramping on, the discounting, the invalidating, the squabble, the rivalry, the condemnation, the gaslighting, the judgement, the falling out, all because of the shine.
The power of the shine draws those of a pure heart and a clean spirit and repels those of contrary disposition. Like a magnet, like calleth unto like and deep calling unto deep. Light is drawn unto light but darkness and foolishness can not comprehend that which illuminates. The shine is here for the benefit of mankind not the glorification of self or the pumping of the ego. It is for edification and not for destruction or belittling, it is for lifting and not reducing. It is not for self aggrandisement but appreciation and gratitude to the giver of all gift, to understand that the same God is rich unto all. My shine I will continue to polish to radiate brighter and brighter. I will not hide my light under a brushel but station it on a candlestand that it may shine boldly and the whole world will see it, benefit and rejoice from its shine. My light will forever shine, no force of darkness can withstand in the day of the shining of she that is favoured by her maker. That shine is their enemy, it brings out the strangest of manifestations. It is disturbing, affecting, smarting, discomforting, destabilising and annoying to them. It wacks them in the face.
My shine is for the nations, for the people and this is why none can dim it.
Beautiful Ivory 