I always prefer light to darkness. Not only do I want my yard to be lite up, but I want my heart to be bright and shiny too. Maybe, that is why I enjoyed reading The Message version of 2 Corinthians.
"We don't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you are living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!"
If I can remove the smallness in my life by the way I live and think, and with love toward others, then I believe my heart will be lite with light through Jesus Christ.
To enhance my understanding I also read the KJV and the NIV versions.
KJV: "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged."
NIV: "We have spoken freely to you Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. As a fair exchange-I speak as to my children- open wide your hearts also."
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