What a terrible thing it is to be a small child who gets a bicycle for his birthday on a rainy day!  He peeps out meekly at the angry sky and sees nothing but blustery clouds from horizon to horizon!  The day lasts an eternity, and somewhere deep inside his disappointment, he despairs that the sun will ever return.  Yet above the clouds the sun still reigns!  The sun will burn off all the clouds, the winds will blow them away, and soon the days are sunny again. 

Jesus is the Light of the World (John 8:12).  No matter how tough the times are, no matter what indignities we must suffer in this life, someday the indignities will end and Jesus' triumph will be revealed.  The sun never ceases shining; sometimes clouds get in our way and prevent us from observing it, yet we do not lose faith in the sun!  We do not call up the local astronomical observatory and ask where the sun has gone and when it will return!  We think that is funny, but why is it that when the clouds of adversity cloud our view of Jesus, we immediately ask why God has gone away and when He will come back?  Or we lose faith altogether, conclude that we have been abandoned-until the clouds clear up as clouds always do and we can see Jesus in our lives again.  In our fickleness and weak faith, we often miss the lesson we are to have learned and repeat the panic the next time. 

In these troubled times, look above the clouds of adversity and see the Light of the World!  Rest assured, the sun shines above the clouds and will soon dissipate them