Surrounded by Light

Gulf of Alaska

Alaskan sunsets in June are amazing. To be honest with you, I don't remember the time that I took this pic but it was much later than what I'm use to. I'm sure that I fell asleep long before the light disappeared.

When you travel to Alaska the sun acts differently than in the lower 48. It's hard to tell the east from the west in Alaska because the sun doesn't appear to move from east to west but to circle you, especially in the summer.

What a picture of God's love.

"For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11 English Standard Version

How frightening it must have been to travel at night when the Sons of Korah wrote this psalm; no street lights, no neon billboards to light the path. This image of God spoke to their fears.

There is still a darkness that we experience even though we can light the night sky as if it were day. The darkness of sin is real and causes us to be afraid of what others might do to us, or what we might do to them.

God is our Sun who always surrounds us with his kindness. He has chased away the darkness by experiencing complete darkness on the cross in Jesus Christ.

With God's daily presence surrounding us we live differently. Living in the light is not license to do or think whatever we want, but to live for him and him alone. Why? Because we need not fear the darkness any longer.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.