In many ways it made perfect sense for me to lie flat-out on the
grass in the middle of the garden and look up at a sapphire-blue sky and finally understand
where all the color came from. Every childhood question like “Why is the sky
blue?” “Why is the grass green?” ”Why do children color every sun yellow?” was
finally answered in that moment of clarity.
Ezekiel saw it… when the heavens were opened (just for him!) and he saw
visions of God and high above the expanse of his vision was a throne made of……
.......Sapphire......
It’s not just the good times we should be
thankful for. Let’s look for grace in
the heartbreaks of life. It’s there because He is there; to comfort us, to
guide us, to give us peace and to let us know that the whole world is in His
hands and under His ultimate control. He reminds us in His Word that it’s all
part of His plan to someday restore this old broken-down earth and these broken
clay-pot bodies to immortality in eternity, forever living face to face with
Him! What a glorious time we will have! It’s worth the wait and it’s worth the
heartbreak. Let’s open our eyes to see
it!
Why can’t the Son-light reflect off God’s throne and grace
us with blue sky? Why can’t this
glorious golden-yellow light blend with sapphire-throne blue and grace us with
green-grass regeneration and rebirth? Children play with school paint and crayons and learn
how color mixes with color and forms dramatically different colors in a
miraculous sort of way. Why can’t God
use the color of nature to show us…...
.......Who He Is?......
Yes, it makes perfect sense; the tulip reds and rose pinks
and every flowery shade in between remind me of Christ’s bloodstains on the
cross. One can take sapphire-throne
blue, mix it with blood-red and get the purple hue of royalty: Jesus Christ the
King of It All. Adam and Eve saw this
grace foreshadowed at Creation, the Beginning of Time, in that beautiful garden
where humans fell so long ago.
And what about the death of green every autumn? Add the golden Son-light to the red-blood and
find yourself seeing the most beautiful orange, crimson, rusts and browns that
take your breath away each autumn. Death
then grows dark, ugly and cold, but new life emerges every spring, in a
resurrection kind of way, that mimics the Salvation Plan that God graces us
with.
C.S. Lewis wrote about it:
The Inconsolable Longing that is provoked by seeing beauty in nature, by
listening to beauty in symphony, by looking at beauty in works of artistic
masterpiece, by reading beauty in great literature. The beauty makes us long for the source of it
all, the source of all beauty, God Himself.
That’s why we can never, ever get enough of the beauty. It never lasts because it cannot last in a
fallen world. The beauty makes us crave it in our very souls. But God gifts us with glimpses of
Who He Is
every time we look out a window or walk in a garden or along a mountain trail or
beside a seashore; every time we hear a symphony, sing a praise song, observe
art, read a poem.
What is the purpose of it all? He created eyes to see. He created ears to hear and hands to touch
and noses to smell and tongues to taste and see that.......
.......the Lord Is Good!......
We are fallen people living in a fallen world. God has a
plan to restore relationship with Him and for those who have received this gift
of Jesus Christ, His One and Only, He gives daily gifts of grace. Every breath,
every heartbeat, every cell, every molecule, every moment in time is a gift of
grace from the Giver and Creator of All Things.
Where is this grace when we are surrounded by evil,
disaster, sadness, poverty, death? The grace is still there all around us even
when life on fallen earth becomes smashed and shattered and hopeless, our Ground Zeros.
Why not learn to be thankful for His grace in all times, not
just the good times?
Seize it, cherish it, claim it.
Smell it, taste it, savor
it.
God is always there in the most
profound ways where we would never expect it.
Oh, it all makes perfect sense…..
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