Bright And Morning Start

I want you to take a minute and think of the most beautiful scene you have ever seen. It can be one that you actually seen with your own two eyes or a picture of one. What does that scene do for you? Does it remind you of a vacation? Or does it remind you of a time of peace and tranquility? Did you actually relax a little just by thinking of that scene?

I want to draw you a new image. This image will be your go to image from now on in the time of distress, frustration, anger, or sadness.

In Rev. 22:16 Jesus is speaking. He declares that He is the root and offspring of David. He is testifying that He is the bright and morning star.

I have prayed using that statement “bright and morning star” for years. I always imagined it meant just that, a bright star that appears in the morning. While this is the gist of the meaning of this phrase, it is so much deeper than that.

Venus has been called the "morning star" because it is the brightest natural object in Earth's night sky after the Moon. At some seasons of the year, it appears so beautifully in the east; it looks as though it is leading in the morning. The morning star has been called the harbinger of the day. I had to look up that word harbinger. It is defined as one that initiates a major change; something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come.

Jesus just told us that He is the bright and morning star. We know Him to be bright in correlation to light. But now He is telling us that He is the one who initiates a major change in our life or our situation. He appears in our circumstances as this beautiful image of resolution and leads us into to morning. He gives us a sign of what is to come. Doesn’t the Word let us know that joy comes in the morning in Ps 30:5. Is your image starting to form?

The morning star, Venus, is used in a variety of illustrations due to its beauty. It appears just as darkness passes away. It is intermingled with the first rays of the light from the sun. It seems to be a herald (an official messenger bringing news) to announce the coming of that glorious luminary the sun.

We know Jesus to be so many different things to us. I had the privilege to speak at my church and my message was titled I Am… Jesus is everything! Anything we are in need of we can find it in Him. So, He is a variety of things to a variety of people. Unlike Venus, darkness leaves because Jesus has arrived on the scene. Our troubles and issues have to dry up and dissipate because our Way Maker is here. Our problem fixer has entered in. Venus was just a messenger of the sun, but Jesus is the Son. He is the luminary which means a person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere. Christ is prominent everywhere.

the first thing that arrests the eye in the morning - might serve to remind us that the Saviour should be the first object that should draw the eye and the heart on the return of each day. In each trial - each scene of sorrow - let us think of the bright star of the morning as it rises on the darkness of the night - emblem of the Saviour rising on our sorrow and our gloom.