Monday Morning Manna: When the Sun Has its Day in You

It is finally healing – the scar left following my ninth skin cancer surgery, and it’s not my mother’s fault. I remember my mother often telling me that if I was going to play outside, I needed to wear a hat. No way! Sissies wore hats. Many decades later, I am paying for my disobedience, as I endure one skin cancer surgery after another. I asked my Surgeon why I had so many skin cancers. His answer was, “You have fair skin, and you grew up in Texas.” Obadiah didn’t grow up in Texas, but he may have had a better answer, even though his comment is probably taken out of context – “As you have done, it shall be done to you” (Obadiah 15). I played in the sun, without protection, and now the sun is paying me back. There really is a larger lesson here. When you disregard the laws – whether it be the laws of God or the laws of nature that God created – you can expect to have the results “done to you.” Artists, to playwrights, to philosophers, to musicians all have referred to life as “a day in the sun.” Well, I had my day in the sun and now the sun is having its day in me.

Dr. Dan Crawford, Senior Professor at Southwestern Baptist Seminary, is the WestCoast Baptist Association’s Spiritual Life & Leadership Mentor. Follow Dan on Twitter @DrDanRC and Facebook www.facebook.com/dan.crawford.