Friday, December 4, 2009

No Night There...

Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

The Holy City Jerusalem- the heavenly Holy City descending down to earth, what a marvelous sight, what a marvelous city! And there we are, the redeemed after a thousand years in heaven returning to earth in such grandeur. There is no night there- no need of a candle, or even....get this...no need of the sun light! Now we can understand on some level that okay, we'll have permanent day perhaps and that means permanent sunlight to us in one respect yet we are told here that we won't need sunlight. No night, no candle, no sunlight- the Lord God will give us light.


No, we won't be wandering about with infrared vision such as we imagine it- we will have the light given to us by God and that's all the light we'll need in this new existence on earth in that Holy City that has no night.


Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Lord God giveth them light.


The light is Christ! The Lamb of God! We are given this light even here on earth we don't have to dwell in darkness in a figurative sense. We can be filled with the Light of Christ's love and forgiveness and it doesn't matter what our circumstances are at all whatsoever.


Easy to say when things are going smooth, but who has a life like that? I don't know anyone that doesn't struggle in one way or another, or have worries that can consume them if they let them.


Christ told us this...


Luk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.


We have to be careful that we don't let our worries overcharge our hearts. Satan might not get us with drunkeness or surfeiting

(sur·feit·ed, sur·feit·ing, sur·feits verb, transitive to feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.)

...but many times our hearts are overcharged with the cares of life aren't they? We get wrapped up in the life we have here and now to the exclusion of God and the life everlasting that awaits us.


Having the light of Jesus' love in us now is as essential as it will be to have the light of the Lamb illuminating us in the New Jerusalem, the Holy City come down from Heaven.


May God remind us often as the cares of this life overwhelm us that all these cares are temporary even if they have effects that result in death or destitution here on earth now. We must live for Christ and that living is focused on laying up treasures in heaven and trusting in God completely- not for an easy life, but for a life that will allow us to live for Him no matter what.


By the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever, all glory, praise, and honor to Him!


Amen.

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