Untangling

Windy days are perfect for revelations. Not that you need wind to think. Not that there is a magic dust that swirls new thoughts into your mind. On windy days, you listen to something invisible. You see something you cannot see. The air, freshly stirred, hovers about your face, presses into your eyes. It’s powerful, majestic. You know wind has all the scientific reasonings behind it, why it happens. But still, your childlike gaze is struck by the magnitude of the breeze, the chilling, the sheer force. It’s like there is something in that air, something haunting or entirely wonderful. You feel the presence of something more, something greater than yourself, horrifyingly beautiful. Wind moves. It freshens. Just stand still and listen, feel it, hear it. Although it’s invisible, it somehow makes the world seem alive…

You can feel it. Taste it. The wind has no image but it can be seen.

You might not think so, but God works in this way too.

We don’t see him. Therefore we tend to think this whole Christianity thing is just a big game of imaginary friends gone wild. Many people don’t believe He exists because there are no definite visuals. No fireworks declaring His presence, no booming voice calling your name…

He’s invisible. But His creations are not.

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”

The wind engages us. It captures us. Makes us stand in awe. Makes us want to worship something. We are drawn to look up in the sky and call on something. It is how true Christianity should be…

What if I told you that you could see God. Not in the traditional sense. Or at least know what He is like in a entirely personal way.

When the wind blows, it moves everything. The trees rustle. There’s commotion. There’s power bubbling in the air. The wonders of the wind can be seen. God can be seen through His people.
“No one has ever seen God but if we love another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”

We see God when we see His body of believers loving one another. We see God, actually get a taste of him. But we see the greatest representation in His son, Jesus, who came as a human so that we could relate.

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”

Just look at Jesus’ life and you will see what God is like.

So take a fresh look at the wind, at your life. You might just find something more than just molecules, something beyond the invisible.

Take a look at a blog about C.S. Lewis:
C.S. Lewis Blog