"SONshine"
Recently we had about two weeks of cloudy weather.
The lack of sunshine seems to make us open to depression much of the time. Then
it finally came, a day of sunshine. I remember seeing the sun around noon and
felt I had to go for a walk. Once out in the sun it seemed like I had almost
become a new person. The whole world seemed different, more people were out,
they were smiling, the sun had brought a marvelous change.
The same thing happens in our spiritual life. There
are times when we are open to depression and sadness. We may wonder if there
will ever be and end to the hole we seem to be in. It is at that time that we
need some ‘Sonshine’, a dose of bright medicine from Jesus, the Son of God.
When this ‘Sonshine’ enters our lives the world can
change. We can bear hopeless situations and a solution may appear on the
horizon. A life that seems to in tatters can be pulled back
together.
In John 9:5, Jesus says, “As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world.” (KJV) If you are in a ‘dark’ time in your
life, look to Jesus for some ‘Sonshine’.
Jan 5/10
Happiness
Everyone wants to be happy. But still the question
remains, how does one obtain that happiness? Many people search for happiness
in the wrong places. Some of these places actually bring unhappiness. I once
heard a comedian state, ‘happy wife, happy life’. In a way he did have part of
the solution; making the people around us happy will, to a degree, make us happy
also.
This, however, is a happiness that relies on the
reaction and happiness of others. How then can we find the happiness of which
we have complete control? The answer is found in James 1:25. “But the truly
happy people are those who carefully study God's perfect law that makes people
free, and they continue to study it. They do not forget what they heard, but
they obey what God's teaching says. Those who do this will be made happy.”
(NCV)
True happiness is found in the study of God’s
perfect law, His Word, the Bible. This is a happiness that does not rely on
others. We end up in control of our own happiness. Happiness from the world is
fleeting at best, but happiness from God will last through this lifetime and
into eternity.
Jan 27/10
A Tunnel
When sometimes we are at a very low point of our
lives, others often use this euphemism to console us, they often tell us not to
worry because ‘they can see a light at the end of the tunnel’. I read a poster
once with a rather pessimistic outlook. It claimed ‘the light at the end of the
tunnel has been temporarily turned off’.
There are man people in the world today wandering
around looking for that proverbial ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ and they are
finding none. They feel like that light has been turned off and there is no
escape from the dark, desperate ‘tunnel’ they are in.
This is because they are looking to the world for
that light. Temporary lights may be found here, but a permanent light will
not. To find an everlasting light we need to turn to Jesus. In John 12:46,
Jesus says to us, “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
me should not abide in darkness”. (KJV)
One of the reasons Jesus came to this world is to be
our light. If you living in a place of darkness and want escape, turn to Jesus,
there is no darkness so deep that He cannot brighten it.
