Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…(Heb 12:2a)
One of the safe ways to view an eclipse is to use solar filters or “eclipser’s”. These filters permit only a miniscule fraction of the Sun’s light to pass through them. The result being you can see the sun directly and be assured that your eyesight is intact.
Wearing the eclipser, one finds themselves completely in the dark, for it blocks out all the light. But when one turns their face to the sun, what a sight! The sun shines out as a bright disk, blazing, defying, and challenging the eclipser to blind its glory even when all other things have gone dark.
In Christian life too we need eclipsers. Since the fall, creation lives under a great eclipse. A grand delusion where God is forgotten or replaced. Life has become a burden, people fallen, creation groaning in labor pains, struggling to be released. Just like the insignificant moon blocks the sun, so do meaningless and vain things block out the true light which lights up the heart of men. Petty pleasures and meaningless activities fight for preeminence.
The Bible is the greatest eclipser given to man. It projects God at His glory blocking out feeble imitators. It projects man and his affairs as what they really are. Calling him as dust and grass, with life that measures in the blink of eternity’s eyes, breath and vapor, all his works under the sun vanity. Whether it be the tower of Babel or the empires of Babylon, whether it be the skyscrapers of New York or the European Union, it shows that the Almighty reigns not only in the heavens but also in the affairs of men, sovereign, supreme, unquestionable, irresistible, incomprehensible, mighty, most Holy, terrible in wrath, just, righteous…
And it also shows the love that God has on this mote of dust, that He came down to the dust that He once knelt to give shape and breath, again through death destroy him that had the power of death. It shows how he raises him who has put his trust in Him, illuminating just as the sun illuminates the moon. How He did predestinate, called, justified, glorified… O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.
Filter your worldview through the Bible and you will find everything else goes dark in the presence of His Marvelous & Glorious Light.
