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| Ephesians 5:14 |
Wow, so please understand something. I haven't written a blog post in a very long time. But I just had to this morning. It is meant to be short and sweet and hopefully it is.
It starts off with a random beam of light that hit my face this morning. As I sat on my couch, eating my bran flakes like any other day, a bright bright ray of light came crashing through my window with all it's grace and beauty. Now usually in the morning, the light hits my face just right as to basically blind me and I have to move to another position or seat. But today was different. It was golden but more subtle than most days and it made me think. First of all it made me think of song that I heard the other day about not appreciating something until it's gone. Well, after my return from southern California, I've been appreciating the sun significantly more than usual. Even on days when it's there, big and brightly shinning. So as I sat in this beaming glow, I closed my eyes and took it in. I know cheesy right? But I did, I drank it in with a deep breath.
This morning along with eating cereal, I had decided to do some reading and a devotional. I am reading this daily devotion called, "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young and since today is February 11, I turned right to the page. It was a smaller passage than usual but it was way more impactful than most... should I read it to you? Pretend like I'm reading it to you... or just read it like your reading it to you.
It starts off...
"My PEACE is like a shaft of golden light shining on you continuously..."
um... what?
I will continue.
"During days of bright sunshine, it may blend in with your surroundings. On darker days, my PEACE stands out in sharp contrast to your circumstances. See times of darkness as opportunities for My light to shine in transcendent splendor. I am training you to practice PEACE that overpowers darkness. Collaborate with me in this training. Do no grow weary and lose heart."
Okay, so usually when something like this happens, as in, when God blows me away and overwhelms with the realization that He is actually communicating with me... I let out a pretty big gust of laughter or sigh or a, "JESUS!!" ... in this instance, I picked the first one and sat there and soaked it in.
I wasn't done reading so I continued to a book called "Life Together," by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one that I had just began a week ago. Chapter Two. It starts off with a passage entitled "The Day's Beginning." As I started to read I thought, now wouldn't it be funny if...
"Ere yet dawn hath filled the skies
Behold my Savior Christ arise,
He hath chaseth from us sin and night,
and brings us joy and life and LIGHT..."
LIGHT?! light... LIGHT!!! .. uh what? Really? Light? ... another gust of laugter...
... well then I continued reading,
"Christ is the 'Sun of righteousness,' risen upon the expectant congregation (Mal. 4:2)" ...
"At the break of light ... it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind" ...
"What do we today, who no longer have any fear or awe of night, know of great joy that our forefathers and the early Christians felt every morning at the return of the light?" ...
"...God the Father and the Creator, who has preserved our life through the dark night and wakened us to a new day, God the Son and the Saviour, who conquered death and hell for us who pours the bright gleam of God's Word into our hearts at the dawn of day, driving away all darkness..."
So all of those quotes are from the same chapter, from the same page, and on the same day... WHAT?
All this to say, God IS in constant communication with you. Sometimes subtly in the form of nature or human interaction or sometimes it's in the form of major ray of light slapping you right in the face.
>>>>>>>>>>(side note: the quote I had before on the photo above was just a lyric from a John Mayer song. I think this one fits more appropriately... Also, the font I used is called "la belle aurore" ... I found after the fact that it means "beautiful dawn" ... again, what?!?!)<<<<<<<<<<<<
"...be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might."
[Judges 5:31]
