Son Exposure

“It’s in the light we can see.  It’s in the light we find life.  It’s in the light there is joy. Find the light.  It makes all the difference.”

Loren Thornburg

I am so thankful for a warm weekend in late October and the chance to be in the sun.  There is something about the sun that makes things better.  There is also something about the lack of sun that takes its toll on me.  I can’t deny the affects it has on me.  I find myself like a lizard drawn to bask in the sun.  It appears it is more than just me, but there is something biological about the ways our bodies were made.  Even more than the needed Vitamin D that we get from the sun there is something that happens when we are exposed to the sun that causes are brains to release endorphins that increase our overall feelings of well being.  There is something about having light in our lives, even more than the sunlight that brings life to our lives.  You were made for light.  Are you basking in it?  

“Everything was created through him; nothing--not one thing!--came into being without him.  What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by.  The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn’t put it out.”

John 1:3-5 Message

Just as we were made for the light of the sun so we were also made for the light of the Son, Jesus.  We were created to be in relationship with Him.  The same as with the sunlight, when we go too long without Him our deficiencies begin to show.  When we aren’t in communication and relation with Jesus it takes its toll on us.  It comes out in many different ways: short temper, inability to handle difficulties, lack of life, missing joy, and so many others.  We find ourselves searching for something to bring light to that place we know is dark but looking in all the wrong places.  There is only one that brings true Light because there is only one that is true Light.  We need to be with the Son.  We need to sit at His feet and bask in His presence.  We were made for it.  Let’s do what we were made to do...bask in the Son.