The Rising and the Setting of the Sun

Have you ever compared life to the rising and the setting of the sun. Sometimes I look at nature and see the parallels of human life. God's masterful hand on creation has a personal touch as well as it's natural beauty. When you look at a whole day from sun up to sun down you can see a story and a picture develop. Some days start out sunny and end up stormy. Some are stormy in the middle. Some are sunny all day and some are rainy all day. No matter what the weather is their is a variety of joys and sorrows taking place in nature every day. What a striking parallel it is to the life of man.

Our life has a rising and a setting and the older you get the easier it is to compare it to the daily 24 hour trek of the sun. It really seems that fast. Some of us wander through aimlessly, never considering those age old questions of why we are here and where we are going when we leave here and yet we all know that there is a setting to our life on the horizon. It's a mystery to many folks and yet it's too deep to delve into because we know the answers require some serious soul searching. There has to be something to this though. There is something very deep going on in mankind as well as nature. Who's hand is on this thing? We need to know and not let our lives waste away in ignorance.

It doesn't have to be that way. At the end we cannot plead ignorance.

Romans 1:20

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.