The Light of the Moon

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Early one morning when I was trying to have my quiet time, I looked out the sliding glass window into my backyard. It was dark outside, but the moon was full and bright.

I’ve been feeling like I don’t have much energy for anything lately and a large part of that has been struggling with the Lord. I want to do what He wants me to do, but I just don’t know what it is. I want to do a lot of things, but I don’t have enough of myself to go around.

Looking at that full moon amazed me. It glows so brightly and yet has no energy of its own, no light at all. It is a great big rock in the sky, but when it lines up just right with the sun, it reflects the sun’s light. The moon can actually light up the night enough to see by just by reflecting the sun’s light.

I am just like the moon. I have NO light of my own. I’m just a body floating along, but when I line up my life with the Lord…the SON sun…I can reflect His light and that’s when I appear as though I’ve energy of my own.

The other thing that is interesting is how we go in cycles. We can rotate, like the moon, through different phases. Sometimes, there is no moon times when we aren’t reflecting the Lord at all. Sometimes we reflect just a little sliver. Sometimes we are the full moon reflecting. Those phases are all normal and the Lord understands.

Right now I’m just a sliver of the moon…and so I long for the time again when I can be a full moon for the Lord.