What a glorious day it is today. The sun is shining and the birds are singing and it is a glorious day indeed. I enjoy my walks in the morning to ponder upon the glory of what God has created that we can enjoy daily.
Isn’t it wonderful what God has created that we can enjoy daily.
Don’t we always feel better when the sun is shining and the birds are singing versus a dark, damp, dreary day? Does the Son shine in your life to bring to view the glory of God’s creation and the everlasting hope of Heaven that will shine forever and allow us to be always in the presence of God?
Even in a dark and dreary day, we can seek Jesus to allow him to come into our lives daily. This welcoming that we must initiate allows Jesus to have an impact in our life and converts a dark and dreary day into a light-filled glorious day. However, this does not occur by happenstance. Just as neighbors and friends usually don’t show up at your doorstep uninvited and it is your invitation that brings them into your home, the same occurs with Jesus coming into your life. This invitation brings a waiting Jesus to consume your home and life.
Do you want to be nearer to Jesus? Think about these words by Sarah F. Adams, 1805-1848:
1. Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
2. Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
3. There let the way appear, steps unto heaven; all that thou sendest me, in mercy given; angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
4. Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise, out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise; so by my woes to be nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
5. Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky, sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
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