Mooned
Honestly, I wasn’t going to do a blog
for this upcoming week. This may not be much of one anyway. A few
nights ago, I was heading to work. I work nights in pretty much the
middle of nowhere. It’s like the directions my dad used to give for going
to one of the churches he used to pastor. “You go to the uttermost part
of the earth and turn back three miles.” I kinda get made fun of by
coworkers for taking the long way to work because I’m not a fan of driving on
the freeway. What most people in Corpus Christi don’t know is after a
certain time of night the city does road construction on the freeway making
travel much more difficult. So there I was driving to work and I got out
beyond the city lights and I could see the moon over the water in the ship channel.
Now what some of you don’t know is this. Recently I was told by my
wife Marion that I’m too grumpy and angry all the time. Been trying to
work on that by working through a Bible reading plan about joy. So, I saw
the moon over the water and the reflection. This morning I was thinking
again about that moment because as I had been driving, I actually asked Siri to
text Marion and tell her “The moon looks awesome over the water tonight.”
It was a little thing. And I thanked God and I told Him it looked
amazing and beautiful. It’s been said that Rich Mullins was the singer
that brought Christianity to life for some people because he lived out his
faith and so did his lyrics. I want to share with you some from his song
called The Color Green. Green is my favorite color being as I’m a huge
fan of the Green Lantern comics. So, these are the lyrics from the
song.
“And the moon is a sliver of
silver
Like a shaving that fell on the floor
of a carpenter’s shop
And every house must have it’s builder
And I awoke in the house of God
Where the windows are mornings and
evenings
Stretched from the Sun
Across the sky north to south
And on my way to early meeting
I heard the rocks crying out
I heard the rocks crying out
Be praised for all your tenderness by
these works of your hands
Suns that rise and rains that fall to
bless and bring to life your land
Look down upon this winter wheat and be
glad that you have made
Blue for the sky and the color green
that fills these fields with praise.”
To understand why these lyrics, mean so
much to what I was talking about regarding the moon is this. The first
line talks about the moon being “a sliver of silver like a shaving that fell on
the floor of a carpenter’s shop.” Jesus was a carpenter he also existed
one with God at creation. He saw and was part of the moon being created.
Then later the song talks about winter wheat. I work at a grain
terminal we are actually getting winter wheat brought in by trucks. We
are about to start a new year and maybe you need to remember where this whole
world all started and thank him for the moon.
Genesis 1:1-5
“In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface
of the waters. Then God said ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the
darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night.
And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”
In Genesis 1:16-18 he goes on to create
the sun and moon and separate them to create night and day. Be thankful
for what God has made.
The Color Green by Rich Mullins
