Night-Time
Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
by PEN OF READY WRITER
Unique Writing Publications
Have you ever thought to yourself when laying your head on your pillow during your sleeping hours, that night-time is just the shadow of this world, which stretches out on the other side of the earth opposite the sun, like a great conical cap, thousands of miles broad at its base, but tapering , till it is no bigger than a 50 pence piece, and at last until it is fine as a camel-hair brush? Sometimes the shadow of night-time sweeps across the moon, and we say that there is an ‘eclipse' of the moon. There are many people throughtout the world today who are very frightened when they see the moon eclipsed – they truly believe the end of the world is nigh. They are terrified by a shadow – the shadow – of the world on which they live!
How strange life would be if we lived in a world which had no shadow! And there are such worlds. They are lightened by two suns, and the inhabitants may see one sun rising while the other is only just setting. One wonders whether the people who live in such a world know as much as we Christians (or should know) of the vastness of the dominion of God. For it is to night-time that we owe our knowledge of the greatness of the universe.
If we had never seen the stars, how little we should know of the power and majestic glory of the Living God. It is when we are being swept round through the shadow of the earth that we perceive that God has thousands and ten thousands of other suns than ours, and millions and millions of other worlds, which He is keeping and guiding through the immensity of space as a Good Shepherd leads his flock. May you think of that when you next read, repeat or meditate on Psalm 23.
The LORD Jesus Christ who is our Good Shepherd is also the Shepherd of myriads of worlds, and He thinks of all the little flowers which open in the dark, and of the many butterflies which flutter over them, drinking honey in the stillness of the night. Why should you be afraid of darkness, or of anything, since the Almighty God, who neither sleeps nor slumbers watches over you through the day and night, and through life and death, and forever?
© 2009 EVANGELIST DANIELE LUCIANO MOSKALThe LORD Jesus Christ who is our Good Shepherd is also the Shepherd of myriads of worlds, and He thinks of all the little flowers which open in the dark, and of the many butterflies which flutter over them, drinking honey in the stillness of the night. Why should you be afraid of darkness, or of anything, since the Almighty God, who neither sleeps nor slumbers watches over you through the day and night, and through life and death, and forever?
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