Isaiah the prophet calls people to move beyond mere fasting and pious acts to offer true worship to God through doing good deeds to serve the needy. Doing so, he says, will cause their light to shine. And like the Psalmist proclaims in Psalm 112, the just one does good deeds for others.
Jesus elaborates on this theme further in the next installment of the Sermon on the Mount. We are meant to be filled with zest for a purpose-filled life, and such a powerful sense of God's presence that we shine forth the Light He has placed into our hearts.
We are not meant to keep the light of faith to ourselves. We are supposed to shine it, so that through our good deeds, the powerful presence of God is known to others.
As St. Paul humbly states, He came preaching, not with the intention of showing His power, but magnifying God at work in Him, as all of us baptized faithful are called to be.
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