While sitting in the endodontist’s office yesterday, the one sitting beside me, who was clearly enjoying a game on her phone, asked me if I knew about the show that would appear this week in the sky.  I did not know, so she obliged me by providing details.

On the news, it has been reported that beginning tonight (August 12th) there will be a spectacular show in the night sky.  The farther away from the manmade lights and the wanning of the full moon (more within the cover of darkness), then the more we are apt to see.

• More Darkness=More Meteors.
• More Light=Less Meteors Seen Shooting Across the Sky

Maybe you have not heard the news, and maybe no one has shared the news with you, so you ask:

“Is this really true?”

The short answer:  “Yes, meteorologists are reporting it so.”  I know because as soon as this was shared with me, I pulled out my phone and began to read some of the media articles.

We read in the Bible that God created Everything:  Planets, Solar Systems, Land, Sea, Light, Dark, Trees, Plants, Animals, and the first man and his helpmate (Adam and Eve).  So, this means that God created the meteor showers that will soon fill the night sky. This caused me to pause and to consider the deeper answer to mankind’s question:  “Is this really true?”

Asking this question led me to the prophet of the LORD, to Jeremiah. As a believer in Jesus’ work on the cross and by believing in His resurrection from the grave, we have been saved.  Thus, we have repented from our sins, turning from the old way of life and turning toward the newness of life He provides.  The LORD has placed His Holy Spirit in us, dwelling within us for the rest of our earthly life.  We have so much!

So why would we desire the lusts of our old sinful flesh, seeking more darkness?  &  Why would we allow disastrous thoughts, loving the dark more than the Light of God, to fill our mind?

All this scientific writing about the upcoming meteor showers causes us to consider our thoughts.  Fleeting thoughts are just that—quickly passing through our minds.  Psychologists write how we have approximately 50,000 each day.  However, that’s the thing; they are just quickly passing thoughts, and sometimes, we wonder:  ‘Where did that thought come from?’ However, what if we purposedly sow the thought in our mind, allowing the thought to become planted in our heart?  What if we allow our eyes to see something or allow our ears to hear something that we know is just not godly?  Once we do allow ourselves: eyes, ears & minds to dwell there, then the thought will take root and grow to reap an action, maybe one we never thought possible.  After we act on our thought, then after a few times, the action becomes a habit.  If this thought we have sown in our heart is a sinful thought, then we can be led to a sinful action, which leads to a sinful habit.

The Bible is clear.

We must Prepare Now for What We Know Will Come Today.

• The LORD knows us; HE knows we are weak, mere dust.
• The LORD created us; HE was not surprised by our thoughts, our actions, or our habits we formed.
• The LORD instructed HIS prophet Jeremiah to warn us NOT to allow our hearts to turn away from the ONE who has saved our souls.

The LORD provided The Way for us to walk in His newness of life, and this saving grace is not just a one-time salvation but a daily, on-going salvation of saving us from our old sinful desires and ways.  Justification (we accept Jesus as our Savior) happens and we immediately become God’s Redeemed One.  Then we begin walking with Jesus, day-by-day, growing into our spirituality.  This is Sanctification (a spiritual maturing) growing until the day Jesus comes to bring us home to our eternal dwelling place, the place He has gone to prepare for us.  Then our Glorification (our new bodies in Christ) will come, all because of what Jesus did on the cross and in the grave.

• Our outward self may deceive those who surround us, but the LORD knows our heart.
• Our inward self may be fooled by our inward thoughts, but the LORD knows our heart.

We must Prepare Now for What We Know Will Come Today by examining our own heart, seeing if any sinful thoughts reside there, taking root within us.  We must see if we trust in anything or anyone more than we trust in Jesus.

Yes, the Bible is clear.