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The Sun Always Shines
The Blessings of God are Always Present
BY GREG
FaithsMessenger.Com
The sun has never
gone out. Since Genesis Chapter 1, the sun has continuously shown bright.
The sun has never
taken a break. It’s never dimmed and of course it hasn’t burned out.
Even on cloudy days
or in the midst of storms, if you were to board an aircraft and rise above the
clouds you would see the sun shining brightly as it has since the beginning of
time.
Motivating Properties
of the Sun
There’s something
about the sun that makes me feel good. Nothing can inspire me to hop out of bed
on a clear day more than a beautiful sunrise.
Likewise, nothing
makes me want to pull the covers over my head and hibernate in bed more than a
cold, gloomy morning.
What will you use as
motivation to remain strong in the Lord when you see no evidence of God’s
presence in your life?
The gloom that blocks
out the sun’s rays on cloudy days seems to zap my strength requiring me to dig
deep down within me for motivation to get my day started.
Yet even on the
darkest of days, the sun still shines.
While the sun makes
it easy to get the day started, cold, dark and gloomy days require me to depend
on strength from within to get my day started and move me to do the things that
I need to get done.
In this analogy, the
sun could be seen as the blessing of God. The sun could be seen as healing for
your body.
The sun could be seen
as a great financial blessing. In this post, the sun could be seen as the
outcome of answered prayer in your life.
It’s easy to be
motivated, praise God, and live a life of worship when you can see or feel what
you perceive to be a positive outcome to your individual situation, just as
it’s easy for me to get out of bed at the first sign of the sun in the morning.
What’s more important
is how you conduct your life when all you can see around you is gloom.
What will be your
motivation to solder on when there is no sign of the blessing of God in your
life?
What Motivates You?
Like the sun, the blessings
that God has bestowed upon you will always be present.
God’s provision for
your life, the health that Jesus provided for you by His death on the cross,
even the very presence of God in your life is a constant.
Like the sun, what
God has done for us through His Son Jesus will always be a part of our lives.
But also like the sun
on a cloudy day, God’s presence in our lives may not always be seen.
Your failure to see
God’s presence in your life in no way means that He isn’t present.
What will you use as
motivation to remain strong in the Lord when you see no evidence of God’s
presence in your life?
The key to seeing the
presence of God in your life isn’t actually seeing at all. We must move past
seeing and move into the realm of knowing.
Knowing the reality
of God’s Word in your life regardless of what you see or how you feel takes
faith to a whole new level.
Knowing the reality
of God’s Word in your life also requires a level of commitment.
Commitment to turn
off the TV and tune out the “believing un-believers” and meditate on God’s Word
day and night (Joshua
1:8).
The storms of life
will come. There will be plenty of mornings when it may seem that the sun isn’t
shining in your life.
Will you curl up in
bed and pull the covers over your head?
Or will you rise from
your situation, knowing in your heart that the “Son” is shining in your life
regardless of if you can see His presence or not?
I encourage you to
become rooted and grounded in God’s Word.
God’s Word is true
because it’s His Word. No evidence is required and no proof is needed.
We are His peculiar
people in that we walk by faith, not by sight! 2 Corinthians 5:7.
FaithsMessenger.Com is a collection
of inspirational Bible based short stories and analogies every Christian can
relate to. The biblical principles of God’s Word are shared in each blog post
in a clear, concise and understandable way that can be applied to life
immediately by a new Christian.
All my
Christian life God has spoken to me through short stories and analogies that
have to do with everyday life situations. I look forward to sharing with you
the unique way God shares His Word with me.
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