8/6/13:

TFTD: “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ…” Philippians 3:20

I’m sure you have heard the saying “Be the moon, reflect the Son”, and although it is kind of a cliché Christian saying it actually holds a lot of meaning. If you know anything about space or planets you know that the moon produces no light of its own. It orbits the earth and is visited by man every once in a while, but it has no special job. Isn’t that how we feel a lot of times when it comes to our Christian faith and lives. We are here and we go through the motions of going to church and bible study but we don’t have any special jobs. Pastors have preaching and teachers have teaching but we have nothing. As a speaker once said “We are boring Israelites”. We seem like the people who go through the monotony of our day because we don’t know what else we are supposed to do. But that can’t be farther from the truth.

            The moon actually has a unique and specific job, it reflects the sun. And to my knowledge there aren’t any other planets or starts that have that job. Now, I may be wrong but it doesn’t hurt the analogy that I am making here. The moon reflects the sun. This isn’t just a part time job either. It happens 24/7/365. It does it all day long. I hope I made that clear. All day!  We have that same job. We are to reflect the Son 24/7/365. Day or night, happy or sad, joy or sorrow, we are to reflect the Son because we know the Son personally. We have this relationship with Jesus and we were put here to share that relationship and the good news of Christ with others. We are here to help them find an identity in Christ and to help them change their citizenship to be an eternal citizen in heaven. Our stay on earth is just temporary. We were put here to do the work of the kingdom of God and share the message of Christ. So let’s go, be the moon, and reflect the Son.

“Citizenship consists of service of the country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru