Eclipsed

Midnight and I'm sitting in the canteen in Tesco thinking that I'm plum out of stuff to say. So I thought I'd scroll back through Lent blogs past for inspiration and came across this post from several years ago when we had just experienced a solar eclipse.  I have no recollection of writing this but it struck me as more relevant than ever. Enjoy


Today I have been pondering the marvel which is a solar eclipse.  That rare time when the moon gets in between earth and sun and plunges us all into momentary and exciting darkness.    The moon is tiny in comparison with the sun.  Its a speck.  Of no significance whatsoever.  And yet when it gets itself in between the sun and the earth it can blot out the light and warmth of that huge star and plunge us into darkness.

This is a picture of what Satan does,

He is insignificant compared with the might and majesty and power of God.  Utterly meaningless. He has no power, no light, no warmth and nothing at all that can do us any good.   His main objective is to get himself between us and God so that the lights go out and darkness descends.   I have friends who are in a very dark place at the moment.  Ive been in darkness myself in the not too distant past.   Its cold and scary and it feels as though God has left and all there is is hopelessness.   But its a matter of perspective.  In a solar eclipse its all about the position of everything relative to everything else.  I think it might be the same spiritually.

God hasnt died, gone away, ceased to exist or even never existed in the first place.   Satan would like to put himself between us and God and tell us so.   But he has always been a liar.  A physical eclipse lasts for a matter of minutes.   A spiritual eclipse can last for longer.  Sometimes much longer.   But just as God has set the sun and the moon on their courses to run to a plan which is in constant motion, so He has set the spiritual world to be in constant motion.   Satan is on his road to eternal doom.   He is marching inexorably towards the day when Jesus wraps it all up and throws away the key.  God is drawing ever closer in anticipation of Jesus return.   We cant stop it.  We cant change it.   It is so.

SO if you are sitting in the dark today, wondering where the sun has gone and trying to remember if it ever shone at all :  if you are cold and miserable and cant see your hand in front of your face....  hang on in there.   This is but a season.  The SUN is still there and Satan is defeated.  Jesus is alive.  Your hope is secure.  One day very soon you will be able to say


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