Where night meets day

There is one brief period of time during each 24 hour cycle when night meets day.  I was outside this morning to see that event.  The blackness of a clear night sky was adorned with an "earring-like" moon.  In a matter of several minutes a line of flaming color spread horizontally across the lower sky of the east.  For a brief period it seemed that night and day competed for domination of the heavens...but the strength of the sun would not be denied and light displaced dark...day replaced night.  I thought of the parallel with our lives.  There is a time during our lives when spiritual night can meet spiritual day.  Even in the darkness of our spiritual separation from God, He is still there...just as the moon marks the night...showing the reflection of a waiting Lord just as the moon shows the light of the coming sun.  That brief time when night competes with day is a memorable one in our lives, but when we recognize the transforming power of the great light of eternity we gladly allow that brilliance into our hearts and are amazed at the difference life holds as night retreats from our lives.  But, over time, we may become so used to living with light that we forget the source and miss the opportunities revealed by His daylight.  There are even times when we choose to return to the shadowy activity of night.  I suppose that is why it is good to remember that time in our lives when the radiance of a new day chased darkness away and warmed our hearts.  We are forever changed by that dawn.   2 Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;   blessings, Rob Smith