The Sun of Righteousness

2021-12-12

The sun in its proper place is of dire importance. If the earth will a little further from or a little closer to the sun, the planet would be inhabitable. The sun helps plants grow and by its light we can see. If we do not respect its power, we can be burned or get skin cancer. It causes warmth or it causes harm.

The same is with the Sun of righteousness. Jesus both burns like an oven and has “healing in his wings”:

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. (Malachi 4:1-3)

The healing He offers is our reconciliation to God by His dying for our sins. He is alive and reaches out to us today before He returns.

Everything hinges on what you do with Jesus, “the bright and morning star” (Revelation 22:16).