Consider The Moon
Thursday September 18, 2014
This past week Chinese people around the world celebrated Moon Festival. They went outside to look at the beautiful bright moon. They ate moon cakes and shared time together with family and friends.
The moon was officially full on Tuesday morning, September 9 about 8am so I was looking for it on Monday evening when I was driving back to town. The countryside doesn’t have the light pollution from the city and the stars and moon are so much brighter set against the dark sky. However, on that night, even though I could see the bright outlines on the clouds from the moon, I couldn’t actually see the moon. I did see it clearly on Tuesday evening though, with all the contours that we were told in my childhood were “the man in the moon.” The moon was even bright the next few mornings in the blue morning sky.
The Bible encourages us to look at the moon and draw strength and hope from that.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4 NIV)
Every time we see the moon we should be encouraged and take comfort from the fact that God is caring for us. God’s care for us is everlasting. It’s steady. It’s dependable. Just like the moon comes around month after month at the predicted time, so the love and care of God are faithfully there for us through every season of our life.
But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth. The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon. (Psalm 74:12, 16 NIV)
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