Seeing God

Have you ever wondered what God looks like? Wait. Even better...have you ever asked God to give you just a glimpse of Himself. You know...To make sure that He's really there. It would be much easier to believe in a God we can see...right?

If you're at all familiar with western Michigan than you would understand when I use the words "cloudy" and "depressing" to describe our wonderful midwest winters.

But not today.

No today was a rare jewel of blue skies and warmer (even though just a little weather. So I took the afternoon to go for a prayer walk on the sand dunes out at our local state park. Just awesome.

As I walked, I found myself asking God "Can I just see You once? Just walk over that next dune for a moment. That's all I want."

I took a few more steps, and heard a jet flying over. When I looked the sun was to bright and I couldn't spot it so I did what most people do and put my hand up to block the sun. It was a that moment that God whispered in my mind something.

See I couldn't see the sun because my hand was in front of it, but when I looked around I could see all the light reflecting of the lake, the snow, the trees. I turned and could see my shadow stark against the golden sand.

The whole time that my hand was blocking the sun, I was still able to see it's dramatic impact on everything around me.

You know, kind of like watching trees bend. You know it's the wind doing it. You just can't see it.

God reminded me in that moment that His work, His effect can be seen everywhere.

It's like Psalm 19 begins:
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge."

Of course if I can barely taking looking at the sun, I wonder then how hard it would be to come face to face with the creator of that sun.

Thank You God for making Yourself known through Your creation and Your works:)