Imagine a sunlit day.
Perhaps we’re inside, with the curtains pulled back, and the floor is awash with light.
It’s beautiful, puts us in a good mood, and prepares us for whatever the day might bring.
As great as the sun is for us, it’s not so good for anything else it touches. Our rugs, faded to gray. Our furniture, cracked and dry.
Even our walls suffer under the assault of the sun. Remove a picture from the wall, and you’ll leave a square of the original. The rest . . . you’ll need to repaint.
If your bookcase is near a window, the spines of your favorite novels will wash out to a ghost of their former selves.
Our lives are the same. We are created in the perfection of the Lord, but life turns us to gray.
We become like the fall leaves, blown by the wind and scattered into the distance.
Isaiah 64:6 says:
“We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”
We can protect our rugs and our furniture using window film or low-E glass. Our walls will remain fresh and new if we close the blinds.
That bookcase . . . move it or turn the books away from the light.
If we want to remain spiritually fresh and new—like the Lord—we must stand in the light of the Son, our Savior and Redeemer who came to set us free.
Life will fade us. Jesus will save us. Let’s choose him every time.
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