Wednesday, August 6, 2014
BLUE SKIES
Blue skies -- something to remember on a warm summer day.
It is a good thing to occasionally stop and "smell the roses." We lead such busy lives, few are the moments to stop and appreciate the little things. Today we appreciate a bright blue sky.
There are times when we take for granted a cloudless blue sky. We long for a blue sky during the battleship grey of the winter or the darkness of an extended rainy season. When the blue sky returns and the light of the sun bursts through the clouds, we bask in the light and color. Again, our God didn't have to make things so beautiful, but He did.
The dark and grey skies are what make us appreciate the blue sky. If truth be told, we deserve nothing but the dark and grey. On a daily basis we sin against our God and against one another. We often hurt most acutely those we love.
It was on the darkest of days that our God chose to shine the light of His love the brightest. It was dark at a time of day when it should have been light. God's Son hung on the cross with the weight of our sins on His tortured body (Matthew 27:45-46, 50):
"Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?' And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
He willingly endured this -- not merely so that we could enjoy a blue sky on a summer day -- but so that we might by faith spend eternity in the Father's house with Him.
We should appreciate a cloudless blue sky. We look forward to endless joys, to a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells all because Christ endured the darkness for us. Let's tell about the True Light who has come into the world!
