Sunbeam Road, Glory Road
June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Theology
This morning, as I took my prayer walk, I was inspired by the sun shining through the trees and morning mist, the shafts of light streaming down to the road. I was walking toward the beams of light, which were so obvious from where I was coming. When I arrived at the place where the beams met the road I no longer could see them.
I took the picture accompanying this post but wished I could have had someone take the picture with me in the sunbeams. It would have looked so spectacular! Ironically, I was in the sunbeams but couldn’t see them. They were only visible from a distance.
The glory of the sunbeams reminded me of the glory of God, as if some slivers of light had escaped from heaven. I got to thinking how these glorious sunbeams are like the glory of God. When we are in the midst of a difficulty, we ask for God’s glorious presence. Often we don’t experience it in an major way. It’s usually later, with 20/20 hindsight, that we realize God was, indeed, with us!
The next time I ask for God’s presence in a particularly challenging situation, but don’t feel His reality as I’d like to, I’m going to try and remember that He’s there with me anyway. After all, we can be walking in sunbeams and never know it!
Dave
