What IMPRESSION do YOU make?

 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden."  

Matthew 5:14

 I define an "impression" as an undeniable presence that cannot be ignored.  The most powerful physical impression in all creation is the sun.  Right now, it affects you.  It warms or scorches you.  It gives light to your room, or it's is hidden by curtains.  The earth's revolution may hide the sun, and so it's absence ends your day.  One way or another, the sun affects your life.

Those who believe in Christ are like the Son, like a sunrise, as it is written:

"The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, 

shining ever brighter till the full light of day." 

Proverbs 4:18

Who is not impacted by a sunrise!?  This is your impact if you are a child of God. Whether speaking or silent, if you are true to who God is, you “cannot be hidden.”  Love or hate, acceptance or rejection, as it was with Christ, so will be with you. 

The sun's simple existence brings acceptance or rejection, an open or closed curtain.  

Shine.
Be the light of the world.
Some will open the windows of their lives to you.  Others will close these windows against you, as it is written,

"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.  Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.  
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”  John 3:19-21

By definition light and darkness are in opposition, as it is written,

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."  1 Thessalonians 5:5

What impression do you make?  If you believe in Christ, you reveal the truth of who God is to those who want to know, and to those who don't, you expose their rejection of God.

How?  "Live by the truth," as Jesus said, and let this be plainly seen by all who witness you. For those who live by the truth do so through God, and these have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of.

Make an impression.
Be light.