The Sun Comes Up

Saturday May 18, 2024

For some of us, coming into  recovery has opened our eyes to the beauty of creation.  In our formerly dysfunctional lifestyle, our minds were in bondage to the addiction that controlled us, and we lived in the darkness of our soul.  The spectacular beauty of the sky never entered our thinking.  Now in recovery, we are coming into a new place and can begin to appreciate the beauty above and all around us.


The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what he has done.  Each day informs the following day; each night announces to the next.  They don’t speak a word, and there is never the sound of a voice.  Yet their message reaches all the earth, and it travels around the world.  In the heavens a tent is set up for the sun.  It rises like a bridegroom and gets ready like a hero eager to run a race.  It travels all the way across the sky.  Nothing hides from its heat.
(Psalm 19:1-6 CEV)  


Nothing is said to it but each day, even when we cannot see it, the sun faithfully comes up to announce the beginning of a new day.  The sun not only gives us light but it also gives us warmth.  It enhances the beauty that is all around us.  

When we gave our will and life over to the care of God light came into our darkness bringing with it the ability to see and enjoy the beauty of our natural surroundings. What a wonderful gift from God. 

 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.  (Genesis 8:22 NIV)


Our lives truly will change as we begin to appreciate and give thanks for the endurance and beauty of God’s creation.

 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I praise You for Your awesome creation.  You are a wise and wonderful God who loves and cares for all You have made, including me.  Thank You for the beauty of the earth and for the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky and that You are truly my glory and the lifter of my head.  Amen

 

 

 

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