Sunset and the Son of God

One Saturday evening I walked along the promenade on my own. When I walked away from the setting sun, everything looked grey and all the world was growing dark. It wasn’t a very attractive sight. When I walked towards the sun, there was light. There were lovely colours and everything looked beautiful. It was quite an amazing contrast. I was so interested in it that I kept turning my head in both directions to compare the views.

As we look away from the Son of God, or turn our back on Him and walk away from Him, our world will seem grey and spiritually dark. It will be grey in that we will find it hard to know what is right or wrong, what is good or bad, what is true or false. There will be no clearcut boundaries and distinctions. But as we look towards the Son of God and walk towards Him by following Him, there is light in our lives and our minds because “He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened” (Mosiah 16:9). We will be able to see clearly. He will enlighten our minds. Our world will be full of colour, meaning it will be joyful and we will experience happiness. There will be beauty. Without the Son in our lives we experience misery, but with Him lighting our lives, we will have confidence and hope.