After watching the pink lining on a thunder cloud in the distance for a while, the sun finally emerged a giant sorbet pink and orange. I can't describe the color. It was so much larger than usual. I perched on a rock trying to capture the enormous size of the sun with my camera, without success.
That has happened to me before when I futilely attempt to take a picture of an exceptionally large moon, hanging bright and bold just above the edge of the world. The photo never looks like anything special, showing a tiny bright dot in a dark sky. I usually toss them. Why is it so hard to capture the size of an impressive object in the sky?
On this sun-spectacular morning the phenomenon spoke of God. He too defies being captured. God almighty, exceptionally large, boldly brilliant, full and indescribable. Sometimes we just have to experience how big He is for ourselves.
God has been showing Himself to be big to me lately. Big in a way that I can't describe, and I suppose you may just have to experience it for yourself. As God gets bigger I am realizing that this life I live keeps getting smaller. The problems that plague me, the issues I wrestle with, and the daily troubleshooting that frustrates me seem to diminish before the vast magnificence of God. He becomes more important while my problems become less important.
I know that the sun and the moon don't really change sizes. It is simply that at certain times I experience them to be bigger than usual. I always believed it was an illusion caused by the magnification of the earth's atmosphere, but I recently learned that this explanation is a myth. The phenomenon remains definitively unexplained. It struck me strange that with all of our scientific advances and knowledge of physics and illusions, after centuries of observation scientists still cannot conclusively explain the reason that at certain times the moon (or sun in my case) appears to be larger than usual.
Perhaps it needs to be looked at the other way around. The sun and the moon in reality are enormous, so much bigger than we can comprehend from afar. Perhaps we are not wrong in observing them large on a rare occasion, but wrong in observing them small on a regular basis. As with God. Perhaps we are forgetful of His true size and once in a while need to remember that He is so much bigger than we can fathom.
I want the year 2016 to be marked as a year of witnessing God in His fullest, biggest, brightest, most brilliant.
