Let your light shine

I remember singing “This Little Light of Mine” as a little kid.  I never really thought about how much good theology there is in it.  In Matthew 5 Jesus tells the listeners to be salt and light.  Salt gives taste to food.  Without taste it is nasty.  Light of course lets us see in the darkness.  Jesus was called the light of the world.  Yet, he said in Matthew 5:14 that we are the light of the world.  He also said that our lives should shine so much that others may see your good works and that glorifies God.  Unless I’m reading this wrong, we should want people to see our good works.  Now if it glorifies us then it is arrogance.  But if it glorifies God, then it is light.