However, a better biblical application is available. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. The message in these verses is clear.
Christians are to show their religion by their lives.
Just as a candle hidden under a basket can give you no light by which to keep from bumping into things in the dark, neither can one s Christianity, carefully hidden behind closed doors, bring others to Christ. Many verses throughout the Bible tell us to be examples to those around us and to tell others about Christ s power to save. Let s look at some of these verses. In Genesis chapters Six and Seven, we read about Noah building an ark. Verse Three of Chapter Six tells us one hundred twenty years passed between the time Noah was told of the impending flood and the actual event.