i love the sun

Watching the sun come up on this cold day, reminds me of how much I appreciate the sun... and makes me think of the contrast: the cold, and the potential heat from that rising sun.

It makes me think too of the Son, that when we see him the contrast with this world is turned up. The world feels colder and looks darker, because we see the Son, and we know the Son. We know the effect he has, the warmth he brings, the light he is – he is surely capable of reversing the madness we live in, the cold, the dark, and bring light to the contradiction.

This is Jehovah, incarnated as Jesus (he had to be made like them, fully human in every way [Heb 2.17]), suffering, dying, rising from the death-tomb, ascending from this Earth system to represent us to God against the accusations of the Accuser, the Satan. It is this Son of whom I speak, to whom I look, on whom I gaze. And that gaze fires my soul, warms my heart, and I can see the truth, I can see the way, I can walk in the life of that Son … and the cold darkness recedes as he rises, it leaves in his presence.

Question .. Am I seeing? Am I gazing? If I know the principle, and have experienced the reality of it … do I?

There is so much hope there. Where are we to go for hope but here? Where indeed.

If I am in the Son, if I live in the Son, if I move in the Son, if I walk in the Son, through his Spirit, I can walk in light, even though all around is dark. I can be warm when everything is dreadfully cold.

So then …. why on Earth wouldn’t I? 

do I ? …. ..

shalom