Moon
Rev. Joseph Holstege offers a meditative reflection on the moon as a sign of God's constancy and faithfulness in covenant, drawing from Scripture to show how this celestial body has witnessed God's providence throughout redemptive history. The article calls readers to recognize the moon as a pointer to God's character and to guard against either neglecting such signs of creation or investing them with ultimate spiritual significance.
There is a euphoric comfort that comes from staring at the pale face of the "lesser light" that was set "to rule the night" (Gen. 1:16). Among the diamonds set by the Creator in the dark expanse, none is so "fair as the moon" (Song 6:10). As anyone knows who has ever laid back in a soft patch of green on a summer night, though there is one glory of the sun and another of the stars, there is still "another glory of the moon" (I Cor. 15:41). Like a flickering flame or a forest of fireflies, the...
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