Grace and peace, Saints.

Ever notice that the sun doesn’t shine through the clouds?  The most it can do is shine around the edges of the cloud, if you know what I mean.  But it can’t–or at least doesn’t– shine through the clouds.  This is strange when you consider that if you stand in the midst of a cloud (in the mountains early in the morning, when the clouds are hanging really low, or in an airplane 20,000 feet above the ground) what looks really thick from the ground is really nothing more than a fog or a wisp of smoke.  Yet, the sun, the most powerful force (besides God) in the galaxy, cannot shine through a cloud.

Now, I bet that if you asked a meteorologist to explain this phenomena, he would give you a really scientific explanation.  And it would sound good.  But did you know that the real answer to this question is not scientific at all, but biblical?  Listen to this:

“With clouds [God] covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt” (Job 36:32).

So, if I understand my Bible correctly, the sun doesn’t shine through the clouds because God has commanded it not to.  And since Jesus Christ is God Almighty (Revelation 1:8), and since “without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3), then it is Jesus who commands the light not to pass through the clouds.  Wow.  

We come up with laws to explain everything, when, in reality, Jesus makes it happen “by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3).

“What manner of Man is this that even the winds and the sea obey Him!” (Matthew 8:27).

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man