One of the most beautiful things I've seen recently is the sight of leafless trees...there limbs encased in ice...the result of freezing rain in sub-freezing conditions. And when the moon is full, and forests such as these are bathed in moonlight, what one witnesses is a sea of crystal branches reaching for the heavens. As if the very landscape itself was fashioned from sparkling glass. It's a breathtaking spectacle. However, the primary architect of this wonderful scene goes largely unnoticed and unacknowledged.
The trees play their role because of the ice. The ice derives it's gleam because of moonlight. And the moon only bathes the earth below in it's glow because it is itself bathed in the radiant light of the sun. Remove the sun from the equation, and the moon has no glory of it's own to boast of. This celestial icon would be doomed to circle the earth in utter obscurity had it not been for the dazzling brilliance of the sun. This sun, which lends the moon it's splendor, and equips it in turn to enchant the earth. The moon is beautiful and shares it's beauty, only because of our nearest star.
But the progression does not end there. The sun in turn is only as spectacular as it is, because of the glorious might and radiance of the Son...the Creator of all things who holds it all in place. So it is with human beings. Cut off from the Son our existences are dull, lifeless...devoid of glory. But were we to expose ourselves to the light of the Son...we could not but be transformed, and in turn illuminate all that crosses our path. We were all born to shine...born to radiate...as one songwriter has put it. But our radiance is dependent entirely on our position to the Son. Let us set our face like flint toward Him. A world plunged in darkness awaits.
