The colors of the sun ...

“But may all who seek you,  rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, “The Lord is great!” (Psalm 70:4).

  The sun begins to crest just below the horizon line. The appearing colors of the morning are beginning to form.  These are the colors that are not seen during the day.  The colors of the morning are sometimes mirrored in the evening but rarely are these vibrant colors seen during the day.  We know the colors of the morning and the evening have to do with atmospheric particles, light, refraction, scattering and even pollution or the lack of contaminants in the air.  Light travels in the morning and is fading in the evening and as it does … filtering,  releasing,  refracting, scattering, bending and countless other factors and consequences are either holding back or contributing to the colors that we are amazed with as we witness their intensity and brilliance.

     Pages and pages of factual data could be written to explain the colors of the morning and we might never appreciate or even read  all the explanations, reasons and material. We like the visual because it delights our senses.  It is what we see and it swallows up most other thoughts as it overwhelms us. God is in the details of light, in every facet and every cause and effect of light because He created light.  We can thank and praise Him for the beauty we see in the colors of the sky but He is far greater than what we see.

     Delight in the colors of the sun in the morning and the evening.  Bask in their beauty and intensity.  As you remember all the facts and facets behind the colors that you see, remember to thank you Father in heaven and His Son for all you cannot see. He gave us far more than the colors our eyes enjoy.  It is the same in our salvation … there is far more unseen in what we are given than the blessings we can see around us and upon us.  We simply cannot comprehend or understand even as we amazed and overwhelmed at the colors we see … we can only be thankful.

Heavenly Father … I thank you for the beauty in the colors of the sun and I thank you even more for my precious salvation which overwhelms me with the indescribable  colors found in Your Son, my Lord and Savior.   I praise you for all that I cannot see or comprehend that comes from You in grace and love.  Dear Father … all that You are and all that give … is beyond me.  I thank you ... thank you in the name of Jesus my Lord, Amen.

“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it” (Psalm 139:6 ESV).

Suggested Reading Psalm 70 & Psalm 139