I wrote this back in August 2007 when I woke early to veiw the total lunar eclipse. I pray it is an encouragement to you just as it was to me then and now as I re-read what the LORD revealed!
Yes, I woke up early to view the total lunar eclipse that the Lord allowed his creation to see. I thought to myself, how can one gaze upon the heavens and not be moved to worship and glorify the Lord of HEAVEN and earth. He is so good to us. How do we get so busy and so smart that we can compartmentalize the splendor of who He is and what he has done? When did we loose our child-like wonder in the glory and beauty that surrounds us, when did that not become miraculous? He said that even the heavens will proclaim his handiworks and that if we don't praise him the rocks and hills will cry out! I don't want that job to be left to creation. He created me to praise him, but what do we do so often? Worry about this, fret about that…NO, not anymore! Do the stars that he knows by name and placed in the very heavens worry about their existence…no, they only proclaim his majesty. They do what they were made to do, called to do.
As the moon slowly became covered by the shadow of the earth, turned a blood red, then black with only the shadow of the former moon…the song by Chris Tomlin "How great is our God" came to mind. How great is HE? That the God of the universe, who set life in motion desires to hear me, to meet with me, to know me intimately. What is my life that he is mindful of ME? Except, wait, he sent HIS Son to me, to know me, to save me, how great is Our God? That brings me to ponder, What is my calling, how do I live that brings his majesty and glory to the world that I live in…just at the stars reveal his love and glory…how do I shine like a star in the universe that all may see and know the love of my Father. I want to produce the fruit he has created me to produce. For me, that is being a godly wife and mother. Am walking in the ancient paths that he has set before me, raising my children set apart from the world so that when the time is right they leave this safe harbor to be the light in the world where God has called them? How blessed I am to feel that I am exactly where God wants me to be…I am not searching, but that I am here walking with God daily as he imparts the wisdom, knowledge, instruction to be who he has called me to be.
After 1 1/2 hours of a hidden moon, the sun began to rise and the earth's shadow slowly moved and allowed the moon to be seen, but as it did, the moon became brilliant as it reflected the light of the rising sun. The moon had changed, become bigger, brighter, then it made its slow decent and set…but the Sun remained! I was in awe, what a prophetic lesson! God wants to be the Shine that radiates out of my life until there is no me, but only him... Blessed Be the NAME of the LORD…How GREAT is our GOD! Shelah
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