As
I stepped out of the door to walk the dog, through the trees I could see the
last glow of the reflection of the sun on the surface of the moon. It was not
bright and full of fire but more of a warming afterglow following a night of almost
full brightness. Even then it still provided light to the yard in between the
long steel blue shadows of the pines. The dog and I stepped into the morning
and we walked around the back of the house turning slowly towards the front
when I looked up and it was gone. No light, no afterglow, no reflection of the
sun just the dark in coldest, stillest part of the night before the sun rises
to begin a new day.
I
was startled. I don’t know why it happens every night like that and most times
I don’t take any notice of the cycle but today I did. I saw it happen. It seemed
so much darker than before. I seemed so much more alone in among the trees with
no extra light now. It was like the when life has taken a dark turn and you are
in between the bad and the good, the night and the day maybe like Saturday after
the crucifixion on Friday and before the resurrection of Jesus on Sunday. That
in between spot where nothingness seems to rule. It leaves you wondering if it
rules?
Nothingness
does NOT rule! Although we no longer see the reflection of the light, the light
is NOT extinguished.
26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the
waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how
or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making
prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans...That’s why we can be so
sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something
good. Romans 8:26-28 The Message
Those
times in our lives when we can no longer see the light that illuminated our
souls nor the reflection of that light in others, those times leave is feeling
alone and in between but the Holy Spirit has been and is there uttering our
prayers that we cannot even make. We have not only the Holy Spirit speaking on
our behalf but also the Son of the Living God.
The One who died
for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very
moment sticking up for us. Romans 8:32 The
Message
Can
you believe it? Jesus is sticking up for you and me even in the nothingness of
our lives when it seems all of the light has been extinguished. There is still
the Light of the World speaking for us, instead of us to the Creator Yahweh.
Amen
5 The carnal
attitude sees no further than natural things. Romans 8:5 J.B. Phillips
That was me in the trees when I
could no longer see the light reflecting off the surface of the moon!
But
the spiritual attitude reaches out after the things of the spirit. Romans 8:5 J.B. Phillips
This
was me when I went inside and opened the Word of God. It was still dark outside
and the coldest of the night but I was warm and in the light and not alone.
So, what do you
think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate
to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing
himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t
gladly and freely do for us? Romans 8:31 The
Message
In HIS
Service and Yours
Bro G
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