1/4/10

Hidden



This is a somewhat dark and imposing picture, but I like it anyway. Not because it is on the dark side, but because it reveals something within the darkness. If you look carefully at the picture, the pink (or Rosy Red if you will)in the clouds is not caused by shadows but by something within them; lightning.

John 3:1-9 WEB (R)
(1) Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
(2) The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
(3) Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
(4) Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
(5) Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
(6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
(7) Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
(8) The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
(9) Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"


This paragraph is the stuff of faith. We can't know or understand everything. Even the most brilliant among us can't KNOW EVERYTHING! The world is too big and human knowledge is so monumental that omniscience is impossible (For human beings at least)! But, what we can know is that we can start our lives anew with God and even though we may not understand exactly HOW God does everything, we still can accept what he says and does by faith. So it is with this picture too; I can't see the lightning, but I know that its there; and I don't even need Rose colored glasses!