Thoughts

I love the other worldliness of a sunrise--it is just an awesome display of heavenly beauty. Sunday's sermon included an analogy that I liked. It referred to Alice in Wonderland when she looked through the mirror and got this glimpse of another world. She stepped through and experienced this other world and when she came back she was never quite the same. It is similar in our spiritual life. We see these wonderful glimpses into the life of eternity into the spiritual or heavenly world that awaits us for its fullness and these glimpses transform the way we live in this world now. The book of Revelation always does this for me. The glimpses we get of the heavenly scene and the worship there; the majesty of God and Christ the Lamb etc is always a fresh reminder of the fact that I am an alien--a stranger--on this earth---a pilgrim.

Another thing, kind of along this line. My son sent me a quote--I think by Tim Keller--not sure-

-"If the distance between the earth and the sun, 92 million miles, was reduced to the thickness of a sheet of paper, then the distance from the sun to the nearest star would be a stack of paper 73 feet high, and the diameter of the galaxy would be a stack of paper 310 miles high. Yet, the galaxy is nothing but a speck of dust in the whole universe, and the Bible says that Jesus Christ holds this universe together with the word of his power. His pinky, as it were. Is this the kind of person you ask into your life to be your assistant"

I love that quote and it is good to reflect on because we sometime shrink God to a magician or to someone who is there to just fulfill our desires, or our wishes. Instead we need to view him in His awesome power and seek to find our Great Delight in Him Himself. ...I believe Dr. Piper is correct that our purpose is to glorify God BY enjoying him forever. The old catechisms stated it with an "and" instead of a By. I think we most glorify Him when we are most enjoying Him.