Our paragraph topis is: (The Clouds of Heaven) Part 9.
When I was growing up I would like to watch the clouds and imagine what they were. Some would become animals or people, or things that would make me laugh and smile or even fear them if they became real. Clouds are beautiful because they can become whatever our imaginations want them to be. They are fun to watch and allow ourselves to relax doing so.
Growing older though, does not provide time to gaze at the clouds. There are too many other activities that occupy our time and energy. We find ourselves busy with the living of life in today's world that requires our time and talent. Cloud watching is a daytime activity whereas we have become nightime adventurers as we grew older. We leave behind the things of our youth and take on the norms of our cultural age.
God and Lord Jesus become more and more a belief of our childhood and less and less a part of who we are in our age of awakening awareness. We know of presidents and rulers and dictators, and monarchs. and kings, actors. sports greats, entertainers, and all sorts of social figures but nothing concievable as God or Lord of all creation. Many in ancient times have called themselves gods that we have learned through history. We even have entertainment with god like figures who have great powers beyond human imagination. This only helps to feed our egos or understanding of what we can imagine a human godlike person would be.
As we grow older and age gives us knowledge and a little wisdom of the world, it is possible to come to understand the balance in the world. There is evil beyond measure in it and so there has to be some measure of good. With that good, there must be some force, some energy that goes with it. Though we may not always agree or understand its working, there has to be some balance, otherwise evil would consume the entire planet.
Christ told us: "The Son of Man will be coming upon the clouds of heaven." He did not say the clouds of the earth. Will you see them?
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
