I posted this picture yesterday in honor of Earth Day, but it has a pretty significant meaning to me. I was reading the book, "The Shack" a year or so back. I had just read a part about the Trinity... the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I had stopped and was really thinking about this and what it means. About that time my husband called me and told me to look outside at the sunset. This is what I saw. The sky was amazing and if you look close the power pole in the picture looks like a cross. The timing of that moment gave me chills. My faith was all summed up in that picture in the sky.
In the beginning on the "second day" God made the sky, a space to seperate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth. That sky and it's beauty at that moment in time gave me a peace like I have never felt.
The "Second Day" I have been thinking about is such an important day for me. I can't image how the people of Jesus' day felt on that second day after the crucification. Feelings of no hope, sadness and loss and confusion about where to put their faith. Resurrection day cleared that all up for them. Today, on this second day, we have the blessing of knowing that we have hope, we have salvation and we know where to put our faith. We have something HUGE to look forward to.
In a society where we tend to put a lot more focus on the commercialism of holidays, it is important to remember what we are really celebrating. Three days in history, that changed history. My faith is strengthened by the promises I have because of these days. This "Second Day" is exciting to me and more than just another day, because I know what the third day brought to mankind.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only son...."
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