There is Sunshine within my Soul!

There is Sunshine within my Soul! 

A remembrance of Him! 

We have had so many beautiful sunrises and sunsets!  Have we thanks our Heavenly Father above for such a beautiful display of His love? 

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds, as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.   2 Samuel 23:4 We often think of rain as a bad day; but is it?  When it rains it reminds me of God's living water!  When the water hits the earth it causes life, for the grass that withers, for the trees that grow, for the bloom yet to blossom and the rivers that flow! 

Did you know that when a baby is born their body is composed of 78% water.  God's living water is so important!  There is another passage in the Bible that talks of this living water.  During one of Jesus' many journeys, he traveled through Sameria.  He came upon a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  Jacob had a well there and Jesus being tired sat down by the well.  It was about noon time.  A Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus said to her, "give me a drink" (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)  The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" ( Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans) Jesus answered her, "if you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, "Give me a drink", you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."  She asked him, "where is this living water you speak of?"  You have no bucket, and the well is deep.  Where do you get that living water?  Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?"  Jesus said to her "everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.  The water that I will give you comes from a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.  The woman asked Him to give her this water, so that she may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.  Jesus continued to tell her that he was the Christ and prophet she had heard of in ancient times.  And that one day he would no longer be with them and that we would worship God in Spirit and in Truth.  (John 4:4-26) 

Isn't this reason enough to hold sunshine within our souls?  The sunshine that is so beautiful after the rain!  In remembrance of Him!  He may be beyond the clouds in a Heavenly place now, but the reason He left was to prepare a place for us!  He is here with us in spirit and in truth!   He is our living water, our manna and our rain!  Without rain there would be no growth, without rain there would be no birth!  Without Christ's living water there would be no eternal life! 

Heart Homework:  Genesis 29 - About Jacob