Dark To Light

As we prepared for yesterday's solar eclipse..to go from sunlight to be plunged into darkness ...even if only for a few minutes...I think back to last week and the events that Easter week commemorates.

Jesus's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, His death, burial and resurrection. 

But for this particularly His death.

📖 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land Matthew 27:45

How frightening to experience darkness falling in the middle of the day!

We didn't have to have fear yesterday..we knew it was coming...the hype has been everywhere for weeks, months even!

But when Jesus died it was an earth shattering, rock splitting, curtain tearing event!

📖 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.   Matthew 27:50-51

My thoughts went to how we go into darkness...when we allow sin to eclipse the Light of Christ. 

📖 But your iniquities have separated

    you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear. Isaiah 59:2

It was a very strange sensation to have it get dark mid day. The shadows looked strange.  And once totality hit...it wasn't complete blackness...but an erie, chilled twighlight. 

Our journey into sin can be the same way; as it creeps across our view of Christ it produces shadows that we might not even notice. It begins to cool our excitement and relationship with Jesus. And as it progresses the darkness just gets stronger and stronger. 

But the eclipse only lasted two hours in its entirety. 

We can allow sin to eclipse our view of Christ for ages sometimes. Months...years. 

BUT we can move back to Light!

📖  When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”  John 8:12

We choose to move the sin out of the way and when we do the Son shines brightly in our lives. 

📖 Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.” Luke 11:36

Another thought; we have to view the Son the right way. 

We need to see Him through the Scriptures.  We can "make" Jesus into what we think He is or should be.

📖 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.1 John 1:5-7

 We must view Jesus through scripture to see Him as He is...He can come to each of us differently and meet us where we are. BUT He will never be anything outside of what the Holy Bible states.

Just like it would be dangerous for us to view the sun without the special glasses. It is dangerous to see Jesus without The Word.

Another observation; as the eclipse started the sun was a yellow orange color. But when the darkness began to move off of the sun's surface and totality was ebbing ...the sun was a brilliant white light!

When we repent, turn away from sin and remove it from our lives the brightness is amazing. 

📖  When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. Exodus 34:29

Only with Christ's Light can we truly shine!!

Praying that you "totally" enjoyed God's amazing show yesterday. 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌚🌒🌓🌔🌞

📖 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

🙏🏼Lord, I pray that we all see You as You are in God's Holy Word. That we do not allow sin to eclipse our hearts from your Light. Give us the wisdom to see, the strength to repent, and the humility to turn to You! Amen♥️

📖 The Lord bless you
    and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
    and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face toward you
    and give you peace.”’ Numbers 6:25-26