The Lamp Of Heaven
Thankful For The Light
Have you ever walked around in the middle of the night when it’s pitch-black dark?
Ouchhhhhh! I stubbed my toe.
Who moved the couch?
Finally you find the light switch and flip it on.
The welcoming light obediently floods the room.
Yay! No more stumbling around in the dark.
Aren’t you thankful for the light?
Morning Has Broken
As the dawn starts to break, the sun begins its morning dance across the sky.
Our magnificent Sun, the lamp of Heaven, lights up a world of over 7.6 billion people.
Depending on your time zone, people start to wake.
Millions everywhere yawn and stretch – ready to face the day.
Each day brings new responsibilities stacked on top of old ones still demanding attention.
Sadly, we don’t have much time to slow down and smell the roses.
The Lamp of Heaven is Powerful
How powerful is the sun?
The Sun’s energy, composed of hydrogen and helium fusion, is comparable to a nuclear explosion!
Nuclear explosions strike fear in the hearts of men, but the Lamp of Heaven is so perfectly made by our Creator, that these perfectly-combined explosions enable life to exist on earth.
No small miracle.
The sun lights our days so we can see nature all around us. (Even a blind person can feel the warmth of the sun.)
– Courtesy of The Institute For Creation Research.1
Aren’t you thankful for the sun?
In the Beginning
In the beginning, there was Nothing.
God spoke, and the Nothing became the Something Spectacular.
You and I are living on it now.
The lights of heaven are the sun, moon, and stars; and all these are the work of God’s hands. (1.) The sun is the greatest light of all, more than a million times greater than the earth, and the most glorious and useful of all the lamps of heaven, a noble instance of the Creator’s wisdom, power, and goodness, and an invaluable blessing to the creatures of this lower world. – Matthew Henry, Christian minister and author.2
God’s creation wonderfully highlights His majesty and perfect love for us.
What a gift!
And someday, the Son (not the Sun) will directly light our lives for eternity.
Make no doubt about it in Isaiah 60:10 below, the prophet was speaking God’s word to Israel – His chosen people.
The saved people of Israel, of course, but what about us too?
God does not forget the Church.
As Christians who believe in salvation through Jesus Christ alone, we are also a part of God’s larger redemptive plan.
This is yet one more reason to delight in God.
Here’s what we have to look forward to!
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1 Quotation from The Institute For Creation Research, from “Nature Reveals God’s Power” n.d., para. 3. Web. Accessed 3 September, 2020. Retrieved from https://www.icr.org/power-of-God/.
2 Matthew Henry Commentary, Genesis 1, courtesy of https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/genesis/1.html, n.d., para. 6. Web. Accessed 3 September, 2020. Retrieved from https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/genesis/1.html
