KGBlog

sunsets are beautiful. if that were it i would thank god for them. but not for that reason, nor for the beauty of anything in nature will i claim a god exists. i do not know him from his creation. i know him merely because he makes himself known to me. having said that, he does make pretty things. and we can see in them something about god if we are aware of him already. nature's beauty, without a knowledge of god, will only bring worship upon itself. i love the illustration that sunsets can be. the sun itself is too bright to be really seen. it hurts us to look directly at it. i watched a sunset from pilot mtn this semester. as the sun sank toward the horizon it began to drench the hills below it in a golden light. ups and downs, small hills and valleys were illuminated where before it seemed was only a jaggen horizon. as the light from the sun came to earth it brought out more and more beauty in whatever it touched. things became clearer and visible as the light from the sun reflected from them. they could be seen for what they truly were, shadow and darkness did not cover anything from sight. i got a few things (and bear with me, my connections may differ from yours...you may see equally valid things in a sunset...but on this occasion this is what i saw). god is too bright for our mortal eyes to look on. there's even something about that in the old testament. we can see his beauty most in the way his light/love enters our world. it makes whatever it touches light up more beautifully than it could ever hope to be on its own. if this is people then they become filled with love, they reflect what he is and become more beautiful themselves in the process. their hills and valleys, ups and downs are iluminated like a human horizon bathed in gods golden light.

Posted in: on Friday, May 05, 2006 at at 5:11 PM