It is good to teach what the light reveals to you, but it is better to teach how the light reveals to you. When you teach what the light reveals to you, you can transform someone’s life. You can save them from the consequences of living a lesser light. You can enable them to receive the blessings of greater light than they have. You can pay a great deal of the cost for obtaining that light through your own sacrifice, a sacrifice that is beyond what they are capable of and/or willing to undertake themselves. But there are limitations in this method.
Every time you share what the light has revealed to you, you will give them a reason to make you their idol. The case of Moses and the Israelites demonstrates what happens when people rely too much on a man. God wanted Israel to become “a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:6) He wanted all of them to come into his presence, but they would not ascend to this state. Instead, they appointed Moses as the intermediary between them and God (see Exodus 20:19). It didn’t end well for them.
As long as those you teach have an intermediary between them and God, they will be eternally limited in the amount of light they can acquire. Inasmuch as they lean on you, they do not lean on God. This is much more than a matter of who gets credit. No matter how much light you have, everything you believe is incorrect or incomplete. By becoming the provider of truth to them, you also damn them to inheriting your own limitations of understanding. Because of this, the focus should always be on helping them develop the ability to get their own light.
The main objective of a light bearer isn’t to share what their light reveals, but to help others learn how to perceive and obtain light for themselves. The main objective of a light bearer is to become redundant.
It is difficult to persuade people to receive the teachings revealed by your light. It is much more difficult to persuade people to seek light for themselves.
During his mortal life, Jesus tried to get the people to learn how to perceive and obtain the light for themselves. The people were willing to eat the bread he miraculously provided, but not adopt the process he used to gain the light that made the miracle possible. He said:
26 ...Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (John 6)
The real riches of the gospel are not limited to the static lessons revealed in his light. What is incalculably more valuable is learning how to obtain the light itself. The Lord taught this lesson as he sat by a well:
13 ...Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4)
What the light reveals to you will be limited to your understanding and the situation at the moment. If you impart the spring of truth itself, those you teach will be able to seek more light from God directly at any time and in any place.