The moonflower is a flower that only blooms at night under the light of the moon. I began thinking about the way some of our gravest and most fearful moments hit us at night. How many times do we wake in the night in a panic, worried about an approaching deadline or an unresolved issue? When that nighttime terror comes again, think of the moonflower. Like the moonflower blooming, Christ comes to us at night with the comfort of his Word: "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).
Like the potentially romantic moonflower, our heavenly Father comes to us in love: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you" (Jeremiah 31:3). The moonflower stays open until sunrise, just as the Holy Spirit stays with us until Jesus returns on the Last Day to take us to himself forever. Like the fragrant moonflower, what sweet joy our triune God offers us, day and night, as he carries us through life into eternity.
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