Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Light falling on a person or a thing reveals a lot of information. For we gather information through our eyes and to see we need light. Without light, to us, nothing is. There have been discussions in science, 100 years ago. If things are if they are not seen or known. Is the coffee-cup behind your back there, when you don't watch it? Where should it go you wonder? Well, if you don't give it a name and a sense, it may just be there but without purpose. If it is there at all. 

Is God there if we don't see him? We believe he is. Is he there, if nobody believes in him? We believe he is. That's called idealistic. Thinking things are whether I know it or not. Whether I see it or not. 

Turn the question around and it makes more sense to me. Is there naything if nobody perceives it? God does. There is nothing his light doesn't shine on. And his light changes perception as much as a color added to a spot changes the color of the object. 

If your shirt is blue in blue light, what color will it have in white light? Still blue? or white? God's presence changes the light we live in and many things we used to call blue may well be white.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son....

Most of us know that verse. If we know only one verse it may well be this. Pondering it in my mind while I listen to some christmas tune, this thought was coming up. Christmas, as happy as we celebrate it, wasn't a happy day. It wasn't happy for God, even though he did what he had decided to do to give us a chance. Yet. knowing all as he did, it cannot have been a happy decision to give his precious son for our salvation. Salvation of a band of disturbed children that wouldn't even value the gift given and not comprehend its immense beauty and intent.

It probably wasn't all too comfotable for Jesus either, being born into a hostile world, into poverty, into certain death. To leave a so much better place behind, even if only for a moment counted short in front of eternity. 

I wouldn't enjoy leaving even my warm and comfortable little place for a stable, much less heaven. Just think! No, it is unthinkable.

Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.

I love looking at the moon, whether he is bright or barely visible, full or half, he seems to comfort me, just looking at him. For there is a power working in this universe that keeps the sun and the moon and the stars in its appointed place. As big as they are, they should fall or roll around chaotically or stand. Instead they move as if in a complicated dance with grace and precision one towards the other, each knowing its place. Whether you believ in science or not, (I believe rather in God), it is a miracle and a wonder to the eye and the heart. Who taught the moon to dance? Who taught the stars to shine? Who told the earth to spin? God does. In him is the why and the what well hidden. Some hundreds of years ago man thought the earth was flat with the sun and the stars pinned to a coverlike sky. Know we "know" so much more. i wonder, what we will "know for sure" in a 100 years from now. And whether we will know more about the power of God.