WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU THANKED GOD FOR LIGHT?

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In the year 1883, it was inaccurately reported that the sun did not rise. However, on that day in August the people opened their eyes to an eerie darkness.

No roosters crowed, no birds chirped, none of the usual sounds of a new day took place. Around the world, people gathered in small groups to discuss what was happening.

Slowly the churches began to fill and by noon every church was overflowing. There were cries for mercy. Cries of bewilderment. Prayers that lasted into the night. Prayers that the next morning the sun would return.

When time for the next new day grew near, great crowds began to gather on the highest hilltops, atop the highest buildings. People stared at the eastern horizon; every eye fixed on that point where the sun should appear.

And then it came. Came with its usual exuberance. Came with its rays painting patterns across the sky. Warm and comforting as it had always been. At first there was only silence and then as one mighty voice, shouts of thanksgiving. Thank you, Lord echoed all around.

No one yet knew that a sleeping, giant volcano in Indonesia, called Krakatoa, had come to life. When it exploded, it had sent streaming 6 miles into the atmosphere tons of ash and lava rock, a black cloud so thick the sun’s rays could not penetrate it. On the wings of the wind it rapidly traveled around the world, covering whole regions from horizon to horizon with its debris.

It was the first time such a gigantic eruption had ever happened. It was also the first time many in the gathered masses had thanked God for the sun.

Of course, few people thank God for the sun, it’s always there. And perhaps that’s the point. We need to constantly thank God for the always there’s He daily gives us.

“I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.”
—Psalm 9:1

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