Often unnoticed is the use of the word sun to reflect the presence of the son, or The Son of God. Christ's Apostles would attend their synagogue on Saturdays, gathering together at another meeting place on the following day, The Son's Day from where we derive Sunday.
The rising of The Son, or resurrection into new life in the care of The Saviour, is our free choice to make.
Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables addresses the determination of a former convict to redeem his life, to start afresh to build a life worth his time, and effort assisting those who were in need of his help. Victor Hugo's character, Jean Valjean perhaps best represents every human person struggling to escape from a self imposed cell of eternal longing to live in freedom from fear of the unknown; to live a life filled with value, and purpose born out of a desire to make life worth living to die for.
When despair cries out aloud a helping hand reaches into our pit of self imposed agony inviting us to let Him guide us onto His path, lit by a lamp filled with hope promising to provide the trusting person with all that The Son grants all who faithfully follow His way.
Divine Providence never fails to supply the necessities of the trusting person,
reaching out to help those Our Father brings into our orbit to assist.
Light and Darkness
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
~ 1 John 1:5-7
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