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Because of health issues, I am often awake during the night. And as often as I am able I walk.
We are blessed to live in a rural area, and it's v-e-r-y quiet and peaceful during the night, with rarely a car passing.
Earlier this morning, I was walking, and admiring the sky. There was Orion, and the Pleiades, and Castor and Pollux, and Ursa Minor, and Jupiter and Venus shining so brightly. And, rising in the east was the waning crescent moon. This tiny sliver of moon was bright enough that it cast shadows!
I thought of a t-shirt I saw years ago that said: Be the moon. Reflect the Son.
I thought of the sun as the light of God, and the moon as believers, and the earth as carnal things that get between the Lord and His people. But even with almost all of the moon blotted out by the earth, it still showed enough light to walk by.
Just so, even when I, as a believer, let worldly things come between me and the Beloved, His light is so bright that it's still seen.
And if I were to reflect God's perfect Son entirely, the earth would be illumined by that light.
It reminded me that to walk as the Lord adjured us to is to not allow earthly things to get between God and me. It reminded me that we are the light of the world. And I hoped it might encourage you, too.
Blessings to all-
ellie
We are blessed to live in a rural area, and it's v-e-r-y quiet and peaceful during the night, with rarely a car passing.
Earlier this morning, I was walking, and admiring the sky. There was Orion, and the Pleiades, and Castor and Pollux, and Ursa Minor, and Jupiter and Venus shining so brightly. And, rising in the east was the waning crescent moon. This tiny sliver of moon was bright enough that it cast shadows!
I thought of a t-shirt I saw years ago that said: Be the moon. Reflect the Son.
I thought of the sun as the light of God, and the moon as believers, and the earth as carnal things that get between the Lord and His people. But even with almost all of the moon blotted out by the earth, it still showed enough light to walk by.
Just so, even when I, as a believer, let worldly things come between me and the Beloved, His light is so bright that it's still seen.
And if I were to reflect God's perfect Son entirely, the earth would be illumined by that light.
It reminded me that to walk as the Lord adjured us to is to not allow earthly things to get between God and me. It reminded me that we are the light of the world. And I hoped it might encourage you, too.
Blessings to all-
ellie
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