Window to the Wonderful

Bible in a Year :

Micah 4-5
Revelation 12

There will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them.

Revelation 22:5

Today’s Scripture & Insight :Revelation 21:23-22:5

Photographer Ronn Murray likes cold weather. “Cold means clear skies,” he explains. “And that can open a window to the wonderful!”

Ronn provides Alaskan photography tours dedicated to tracking Earth’s most spectacular light show—aurora borealis (the northern lights). Murray speaks of the experience as “very spiritual.” If you’ve ever seen this iridescent display dance across the heavens, you’ll understand why.

But the lights aren’t only a northern phenomenon. Aurora australis, nearly identical to borealis, occurs simultaneously in the south—the same kind of lights.

In the disciple John’s telling of the Christmas story, he skips the stable and shepherds and goes directly to the one who “brought light to everyone” (John 1:4 nlt). When John later writes of a heavenly city, he describes the source of its light. This “city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light” (Revelation 21:23 nlt). This light source is Jesus—the same source referenced in John 1. And for those who inhabit this future dwelling, “there will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them” (22:5 nlt).

As our lives reflect this light of the world—the one who created aurora borealis and australis—we open a window to the truly wonderful.

By: Tim Gustafson

Reflect & Pray

When or how have natural wonders dazzled you? What’s distracting you from reflecting God’s light to the world?

Dear Creator of the cosmos, may the beauty of the night sky remind me that You’re the true light of the world.

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