You are the Light of the World

In the "sermon on the mount" Jesus after giving the the beatitudes, tell His disciples this, "you are the light of the world." In my own Christian journey I find myself and other fellow Christian trying so hard to project that light, just because we fail to see the our new being and new life in Christ. Jesus didn't ask us to create the light, but He say "you are the light" many a times I see Christian including myself obeying this statement of Jesus as if He had given us a torch light and we are suppose to shine the light into the dark place whenever and wherever we can as long as our battery power is still strong. But Jesus is referring to people who have been born again and received this new life as new creation in the source of LIGHT as light. We are the light, our whole being and character is the light, wherever we go our light shines. That's why in the following verse the warning that Jesus gave was not about switching off your light and fail to shine but He was warning against covering up your light. Jesus has lid you up, the worst you can do is covering it up. Why people of light would want to cover up their light? Because when there is light darkness will flee, and sad to say Christian sometimes still prefer darkness to be around. Is hard to be someone you are not, is hard to shine when you are not the light, when the source of light is not in you.
Jesus The Light has come, He did not just give you the light, but He made you into a light to the world. So that people may see this transformed light and praise our Father in Heaven.