Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch
Sabbath, November 9, 2024
Friday evening of this week Shelley and I were taking a leisurely stroll through our neighborhood, and I happened to glance up at the moment when a long jet-contrail ended near a cloud-fuzzed moon. It looked as though a brilliant comet or shooting star was tumbling waveringly toward earth.
Grabbing my smartphone, I snapped this scene, and spent much of the rest of the walk home musing about it.
I’m going to be very frank here. I find it numbingly shocking that a growing number of politicians are grasping and using the vocabulary of Jesus’ faith without a vapor-width of Jesus’ true spirit. Because of this, and I know this as a fact, many non-Christians watch this happening, and sense its hypocrisy. In their minds, Jesus’ own “star” (already fuzzed and obscured by filters people have subjected it to) begins to fall, soon to disappear below the horizon of credibility.
The truth, of course, resembles the facts behind this photo. No, Jesus’ “star” isn’t affixed to public opinion. Like the moon, Jesus is many miles distant, and popular opinion doesn’t change His reality in the least. But though currently distant, He is still very close, and ready to be welcomed as a personal Guest in our hearts.
To read a bio of Jesus, made up of several Bible verses, click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/jesus-christ