Intro:
This pretty much functions as the "preparer" for the song. This sets the stage and reminds us that we are all called to present God's light for everyone to see.

Verse 1:
This presents the first scenario of one struggling with its purpose. What can a mountain do, anyway? Well, what it does is exactly what it should be doing...it's how it was created! A mountain's purpose is to help people get to the top, to reach their goals, to go where few have gone before. Seems like a pretty important purpose to me. Like mountains, we can also help others to get to the summit of life by giving them the light of Christ.

Verse 2:
The second scenario involves an old doorknob. Now here's a dillema...seriously, what can an old beat-up doorknob too anyway? Just like the mountain, it was created for a purpose. A doorknob opens doors to let people into another room, another opportunity, untested territory. That's quite an important task. Like doorknobs, we can also show people new opportunities by sharing with them the love of Christ, and opening the biggest door of their lives - the door to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Verse 3:
God delights in all of us. No matter who we are or what we do, He delights in us. That delight puts a light in our hearts, and the universal purpose of all mankind is to let that light shine. So let's do that - let's fulfill God's purpose in our lives.

Chorus (1, 2 & 3):
"God don't make no junk." That's a popular and well-stated phrase. It's true. He gives each of us very specific gifts so that we can use them to glorify God and His Kingdom. Everybody can do it because God say so.

Overall:
As children of God, we have a purpose in life for which we were created. This very purpose makes us who we are, and only we can fulfill that. If we never find that purpose, then the very thing that God intended us to do will never ever be done. Though it may seem easy to say that God has no purpose with me ("What can God possibly do with little old me?"), it is the truth that we all are unique and we can all serve God's kingdom just as well based on how God created us.

1 Corinthians 12:1, 4-7, 12-27:
"Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."

"God's Light" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © December 20, 2003