Matthew 5:16 English Standard Version (ESV) In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:6 English Standard Version (ESV) For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Another kind of defacing occurs if we do not let our light shine.

2 Peter 1:19 English Standard Version (ESV) And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Peter speaks of Christ as being that light in us. If we do not allow Him to shine in our lives it is just another way the enemy has seen to deny Christ which is another defacing, to obscure the glory in us that is meant to show Christ to the lost.

Peter reminds us to pay attention. Do not allow the events around us to keep us from being that light is dark places. I doubt seriously than anyone of us would deny that these are dark times. During dark times the light is needed all the more.

Jesus compels us to let His light shine before others. Do not allow feeling of doubt keep us from being that light. Everyone who has served God has felt that way from Moses to Gideon.

2 Corinthians 12:10 English Standard Version (ESV) For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 13:8-9 English Standard Version (ESV) For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. ⁹ For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

When we think “I cannot”, believe that He can. Pray for each other.

Deuteronomy 12:1-7 English Standard Version

The Lord’s Chosen Place of Worship

12 “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. ² You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ³ You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. ⁴ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way. ⁵ But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, ⁶ and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Here is God’s instruction to His people about defacing the worship of false gods.

The enemies of Christ return the favor and do the same to us. Think about that for a moment.

John 10:10 English Standard Version (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

We can think of many things in this world where the enemies of Christ are defacing what we have built up in the name of Christ. I do not have to go through that list as we are aware of what the enemy is doing. This is not a political platform, it is a spiritual one.