"And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." Revelation 21:23

The sun and the moon were created to separate the day from the night and to use to track signs, seasons, days, and years (Gen 1:14-19). It is incredible that we will no longer need them in the restored earth. The need to separate darkness from light is no longer an issue when in the presence of a holy God. In his light there is no darkness at all (1Joh 1:5). Time will not matter the same as it does to us now. There will be no need to track it. Redemptive history will meet the completion of future redemption.

Submission to his Holy Spirit places pain, strife, rebellion, at his feet leading to the increase of our happiness.  If He brought us to these situations in our lives, he intends to lead us to successfully navigate them. If this holy city is what is waiting for us in the Spirit, why do we insist on focusing on things we now see in the physical? It’s because in part that we don’t believe God is at work through them. Why is there suffering, for example? That can’t be God, can it? Yet, our redemption was delivered through the ultimate suffering servant: our Lord Jesus.

But then you’d have to consider the things that characters like Joseph had to go through. Do you know that one could claim that he brought some of it on himself? He wasn’t exactly humble around his brothers with the dreams the Lord gave him. He was already a daddy’s boy. His brothers easily viewed it as trying to exalt himself over them. Succession and inheritance were a big deal back then. It was the order of things. To go outside of that was disrespectful. Many stories are not in the cannon of Scripture. There are many people who believed God, trusted in God, and were quite frankly drug through the mud in their lives without a written record.

Heaven and all its hosts are in complete submission to God.  Blessed are the meek, they have an inheritance the prideful do not. Blessed are the peace makers who receive hostility and undeserved suffering, they will be called the very sons of God. Believe. Only believe that He is able to work through our problems; not with squeaking by but with victorious overcoming of obstacles. When we submit to him without contingencies we find that God is not a man that he should lie. Eventually, our problems will flee seven ways from before us as we don’t let up in allowing him to lead us to the victory!  

The bible says to pray and believe in what we ask. Believe that there will be a performance of it. There is a pathway that is fully lit by the glory of God!  His light will never set! His light is empowerment to chase all shadows away. As sure as there is night, there is day! And surely there is a day where God himself will be our light! Amen, Saints. Amen.