A few mornings ago, I pulled up the shade and saw this amazing sunrise. Within minutes, I opened the window, pulled out the screen, and began snapping photos. I'm sure you understand why--it was beautiful!
D.L. Moody once wrote about a man from Scotland. After an injury at the age of fifteen, this Scottish man had been bedridden for some forty years. Despite being confined for so long, Moody said this man was like being near heaven--his faced shined so. Seldom, Moody declared, had he seen a face shine as this man's face did.
Don't you just long to have a radiance like that? To shine like one of God's magnificent sunrises? I do. What are clothes, money, pleasure and fame, compared to the joy of Christ?
The world tries to scream in your face, watch this to be happy! Wear this to fit in! Say this to be loved!
Ironically, the people who follow the world are so very un-happy. Instead, their hearts and minds are dark. They wander aimlessly, with no purpose or hope.
But those who follow Christ! Those who press on, despite the struggle--even if it is being bedridden for forty years--they are the ones that radiate with the light of Jesus.
Shine!
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