The electronic devices of the day have a great deal of our focus. Everyone seems to be looking down… reading, scrolling or feverishly typing the next text message. How many hours a day do you spend looking down?
My Gramps, pictured here, lived passionately for 98 years and loved gardening, farming and tending his vineyard. God brought him home in 2003 but his memory and the images of his towering sunflowers live on.
I realized years ago that the sunflower holds a powerful message and reminder for those of us who follow Jesus Christ. Each and every day, the sunflower tracks the sun from east to west. No matter how dark it gets, this flower of the sun is always in pursuit of the light source.
And we have the same opportunity as children of the Son. We can continuously seek the Son of the Living God no matter how dark life gets. “God is light. In Him there is no darkness.” 1 John 1:5. We can daily track The Light of the World and commune with Him from sun up to sundown. It’s in Him, and Him alone, that we find the perspective and peace that transcend all understanding.
It’s all about the lens through which we choose to view the world. We can start with our relationships and circumstances and try to see God. Or we can start with God and view our relationships and circumstances from His all-encompassing vantage point. Everything changes when you illuminate it all with His Truth first. “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:33.
How quickly we forget that “all these things” we see are temporary. It’s so often the temporary things that can exhaust us, exasperate us and bring us to the end of ourselves. “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18.
Want a heart full of Sonshine that not only dispels the darkness of life but splashes out over everyone who encounters you? Look up! Seek and track daily THE Light Source. “Those who look to Him are radiant.” Psalm 34:5.
