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Super Moon

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Starting tonight and tomorrow night the moon is supposed to be closer to the earth than it is at any other time of year.  Many photographers will get out telescopes and fix their cameras to them for extreme close up shots.  I am jealous.  I don’t have a telescope or any means of connecting my camera to one anyway.

As I was thinking about the moon I am reminded that the moon has no light in and of it’s self.  The light you see in the moon comes from the sun.  The moon is a big reflector.  Hmm…  Yes, I am going there.

This is just exactly what you and I must do, Christian.  We must reflect the light of the Son of God.  We can be moons for Jesus.  We are all reflecting something; but, is that worth reflecting.  Too much of the time we reflect what we need not reflect.

There are people in the world that have their very eternal destination hanging in the balance of what we reflect or do not reflect.  This should be a sobering thought to you and I.  The Psalmist put it this way in Psalm 43:3, “O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.”  It is my prayer that we all send out the Light of God so that unsaved people will see the light and run to the LORD.

So, how are you doing?

Mooned?

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In our house we watch the weather for the coming and going of the high and low fronts.  Pressure is far too many days our enemy as it has ill effects on people.  When I drove an ambulance for a living you could tell the moon phases by the run load.  On full moon days we ran like crazy back and forth between the hospital and the care facilities.  The care facilities did not know what to do with the patients so they sent them to the hospital.  The hospital would give them a clean bill of health and send them back to the care facilities.  It was a vicious cycle.

In thinking about the moon, I was reminded of an amazing fact.  The moon does not give off any of it’s own light.  The moon simply reflects the light from the sun.  this is such an amazing fact to me.  I am reminded of the song we sang while I was growing up, “This Little Light Of Mine”.

As a Christian we are to be a spiritual moon.  Yes, we are.  We are to take the light of the Son and reflect Him and His message to a dark, desperate and dying world.  I believe we are exhorted to do so in Matthew 516, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”  It is not our light; but, the light of Christ that we are to reflect.  When light comes in the darkness is gone.  Darkness and light cannot exist in the same spot.  Try it this evening.  Turn on a light in a dark room and see where the darkness goes.

It is my prayer that you and I can get “turned on” to Jesus and let His light shine through us to a dark and dying world that needs exactly what we have to give them from Jesus.  Will you?

So, how are you doing?