It’s special for many different reasons but the main one is that I was there. I sat out on our veranda watching as the light became golden and the sun began it’s slow march around the world to wake up my sleeping friends and family in Canada. In so many ways this beautiful view was created for my eyes alone.
There is no way to rewind time so that I can hop on a plane, fly across the world and bring you back here with me to partake of this divine moment. It was a one time show with elite seating accomodations. Even if I could you rewind time and bring you here, your experience would still be unique and all your own.
Think about that for a minute… Not the fact that you missed out and time travel hasn’t been perfect yet but the fact that God lit up the entire sky, painted it with brilliant golds, reds and oranges for no other reason than to bless me. To show me that he loves me in an extravagent way.
Often times when we go into the Baggot community and walk door to door to invite people to paint with us, go to the beach, come to church or worship no one is there. They’re all asleep. We make plans, think up different ways to bless them and present the gospel to them and offer to help them in any way that we can but often it feels like we’re invisible. We go, set up and wait…then no one comes.
The reason we persist is because once in a while a few will come, maybe one or two people. If we weren’t there we wouldn’t get the opportunity to get to know them or their situation. We wouldn’t be able to get to know their situation or find out ways to bless them. They would just be invisible to us, nameless. We go and make ourselves available because we want to build relationships in the community.
The Bible says that all of creation points to the majesty, power and glory of God. I bet that’s why he’s willing to paint the sky even when we ignore it most of the time because in doing so he is making himself available to us. He pulling out all of the stops and saying, “Come! I love you! I want you to know me!”
