In a previous blog (see HERE- it is the blog blog.yates.feb4), I discussed the Lord’s illustration of lighting a lamp and placing it on a lampstand rather than hiding it under a bed. I argued that we miss a little of the illustration’s meaning because we didn’t live in the first century. We probably think that it would, of course, be illogical to hide a lamp under a bed. But the Lord means something more: Placing a lamp on a lampstand would