I enjoy looking up into the night sky and seeing the moon. I remember as a child being told the moon was made of cheese, and about the man in the moon. These are just made-up stories. The moon is not made of cheese and there is no man in the moon. I remember the scene in Angels in the outfield, when the little boy looking up at a crescent moon said that it was Gods’ fingernail.

The moon is just a natural satellite that orbits the earth. It does not have air, and no life is found in it. It does not even produce the light we see. It reflects the light from the sun, and depending on where it is in its’ orbit of the earth determines how much of the sun’s light is reflected. We call these phases of the moon, from new moon to full moon.

When I think about this, I am reminded of how we reflect the light of Jesus. The sun does not move. All the planets in our solar system rotate around it. Then all but two planets in that system have moons that orbit them, the earth having only one moon. Now think about any time when you might have heard someone say that God seems so far away. It is not God that has moved, but he person who has moved away from God. Then like the moon when it looks like a crescent or any other phase when it is not full. It has not changed it’s size but the light from the sun is being partially blocked by the earth. People can do the same thing when they choose the things of this world and allow these things to get between them and Jesus.
I know I am not a moon but if I were, my desire is to be a full moon, always basking in His light.