The Sun, The Son

Before daylight savings time took effect two weeks ago, the sun would have had risen and there would be daylight by the time I left for work. But as we were now an hour "ahead", the sun did not rise until later.

A couple of days into the new time, I was driving west towards campus, as usual. Morning gradually broke and I could see the rising sun from my rear window. As I glanced at the sun, I was happy that the sun was there.

Then it dawned on me.

Despite what we have been taught as children about the sun rising from the east and setting on the west, the sun does not move. It is the earth that does. The sun has always been where it is. It does not matter that we change our clock every six months, the sun always shines where it is. We don't see it because the parts of the earth moves facing away from it every day.

It is the same with the Son. We see darkness around us not because God is not there. He does not "show up"; He has always been where He is. We don't see Him because we move away from Him, not because He moves away from us.

May we always move towards Him and bask in His glorious Light.