Eternal Sunrise
(No, I'm not talking about the movie, though that is a good movie)
I was contemplating a sunrise recently and something occurred to me, and I'm not sure if I will be able to convey the meaning in a way that will make sense to normal humans.
As I watched the sunrise I began to think about the joy that the Lord must get simply from watching His creation function in the way that He intended. The same goes for the birds when they sing songs in the early morning. They are living as God willed and in so doing, giving their creator pleasure. I gazed at the sunrise and thought about watching the one the following morning and was sad at the thought that I would have to wait for 24 hours to witness the beauty again. A thought then struck me, that though I could not see another sunrise till the next day, with the Omnipotent power, God had engineered it so that somewhere it is always sunrise, it is also sunset. The evening star is always just emerging over some part of the earth- be it New York City, or a lonely plain in Africa. God is always being praised by His creation- from the crickets chirping in time with the temperature of the day, fireflies dancing in joy, the sun sinking into the ocean.
How awesome is it that we have a God who can create with an eye for beauty, not just utility. He could have created the principles of physics so that the world would have functioned if it were flat. He is not bound by our impressions of the way that gravity and the solar sytem work. Instead, our perceptions of the universe are bound by God's capacity for love. I take great comfort in that any pleasure we take from the world around us is not a happy coincidence or even a afterthought, but a vital part of the process.
I know that this revelation may not make logical sense the way that I have described it, or that it may be something that is commonplace to many of you, but it was something that blessed me and made me more aware ofthe way that I view the world through my windows on the way to work, so I felt that it was worth sharing. Also, many times my writing here on my blog helps me to process what I am thinking and feeling (admittedly somewhat inhibited by the fact that I know that others read this.)
(No, I'm not talking about the movie, though that is a good movie)
I was contemplating a sunrise recently and something occurred to me, and I'm not sure if I will be able to convey the meaning in a way that will make sense to normal humans.
As I watched the sunrise I began to think about the joy that the Lord must get simply from watching His creation function in the way that He intended. The same goes for the birds when they sing songs in the early morning. They are living as God willed and in so doing, giving their creator pleasure. I gazed at the sunrise and thought about watching the one the following morning and was sad at the thought that I would have to wait for 24 hours to witness the beauty again. A thought then struck me, that though I could not see another sunrise till the next day, with the Omnipotent power, God had engineered it so that somewhere it is always sunrise, it is also sunset. The evening star is always just emerging over some part of the earth- be it New York City, or a lonely plain in Africa. God is always being praised by His creation- from the crickets chirping in time with the temperature of the day, fireflies dancing in joy, the sun sinking into the ocean.
How awesome is it that we have a God who can create with an eye for beauty, not just utility. He could have created the principles of physics so that the world would have functioned if it were flat. He is not bound by our impressions of the way that gravity and the solar sytem work. Instead, our perceptions of the universe are bound by God's capacity for love. I take great comfort in that any pleasure we take from the world around us is not a happy coincidence or even a afterthought, but a vital part of the process.
I know that this revelation may not make logical sense the way that I have described it, or that it may be something that is commonplace to many of you, but it was something that blessed me and made me more aware ofthe way that I view the world through my windows on the way to work, so I felt that it was worth sharing. Also, many times my writing here on my blog helps me to process what I am thinking and feeling (admittedly somewhat inhibited by the fact that I know that others read this.)
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