Daily Journal: 10 December

Do We Welcome The Sun?

We see a representation of God’s glory when we see a sunrise.

The first glow of colours splash the sky before the light of the sun begins to peak. The sun’s light heralds its appearance before the sun itself crests the horizon. The sun itself is so bright we can’t actually see it if we stare at it. But it captures the sky and its illumination is full of radiance, colour, and vibrant beauty.

Do we welcome the sun?

Mark 8:36-38 (NLT)

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Living in the days where the light of Christ has peaked over the horizon, and the colours splash across the sky, do our souls recognise His glory? When Jesus returns, our souls need to be ready, waiting, expectant, repentant, free of offense, free of malice, free of anger and bitterness, hatred, murder, slander, judgment, criticism, vulgarity, immorality, and impurity.

Do we welcome the Son?

John 14:6 (NIV)

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

People have a problem with this passage because it doesn’t suit their sensibility. If you’re ok with knowing who Jesus is, and accepting who He is, there won't be a crisis of identity in accepting the scripture. Rather, there will be an embracing of identity.

Hebrews 12:14 (CEV)

Try to live at peace with everyone! Live a clean life. If you don't, you will never see the Lord.

As we find our identity in Jesus, we allow all the things of this world that consume our souls to fall away. He is the all-consuming light to our spirit, salvation to our soul and health to our mind and body.

Have you reconciled the true representation of God's Word is only the Son of God, Jesus Christ and He is the light of the world?

Revelation 21:23 (AMP)

And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it, for the glory (splendor, radiance) of God has illumined it, and the Lamb is its lamp and light.

Lord God, let your glory and light illuminate our spirit, absorb our soul and heal our bodies, as we embrace our identity in you.