Glimpses Of God

 

      There are days when it looks like the sky could fall, as the gray clouds hover close, with moisture so thick it feels like it's already raining, although not a drop has actually fallen.  I like storms--not the kind that wreak havoc or destroy, but those kinds with rolling and rumbling thunder and lightening strikes which lights the sky.   

It's all so majestic and in an odd kind of way, to someone like me who understands little of weather, mysterious!  I just sit and revel in the beauty and sensation of witnessing something so powerful!  Isn't our God just like that?!    He hovers close, --like the rain that hasn't fallen, pours out his love, -- like that rain that finally comes, and demonstrates his power with a magnitude we can't even imagine,--- when he sees to our needs and performs the unexpected miracle, in addition to providing intense beauty we can find here on this planet Earth!

Easter is this next Sunday and like the nearness I felt when the storm was close, so is the nearness I feel from a Resurrected Christ.  When I think of the awesome power demonstrated when Jesus left the grave, it gives me goosebumps.

We don’t have any actual photos of Jesus when he walked the earth, and certainly we have no pictures of God, except what our minds can conjure given the information shared within His Word.  But don’t we still get glimpses of God?

Our imaginations can see the stone rolled away (even we haven’t visited Israel and see the actual tomb); we can picture the cross even though there are no visible evidences of it now; we can imagine how Christ will return one day walking down through the clouds to gather his children and so much more.

We also have evidences and glimpses of a powerful God as we look into the faces of a new born babe and our loved ones; behold the majesty of the mountains and the tranquility of the prairie; or enjoy the bounty from our gardens; or watch a natural waterfall flowing forcefully over a mountain ledge; breathtaking sunrises and sunsets; snow falling gently on a cold winter day; or the intense colors that abound in Spring while the birds sing in surround sound in their various voices.   This is such a short list of all the ways God gives a glimpse of who He is.

As we join with other Believers on Sunday I encourage you to stop, even if just for a moment and remember….. Remember what He did on the cross for the entire world and what that means—an opportunity to spend eternity with Him some day with all our sins forgiven when we believe.  But also while we wait, notice the magnitude of the immense ways he has given us as demonstrations of who he is.  

      We serve a living God.  A God who wants nothing more than a unique one on one relationship with all who will believe.  That's almost difficult for our minds to comprehend, especially when we consider our 'human-ness', who chooses friends carefully!  

    God loves us all and proved that by sacrificing himself on an old rugged cross --- his blood covering my sin.  What greater love is there than this?  Simply said: I am overwhelmed!  God is so Good!