Ezekiel 1:28 Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendour all round. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Theology is a dangerous business. I don't mean dangerous like the military or police work, but dangerous intellectually. Talking about God or describing God is dangerous because God is literqlly indescribable. Once we say God is like something, we are missing the point because human language cannot contain God. Talking about or describing God is like putting God in a box. There is no box adequate for God and we know from the bible that God does not appreciate being put in boxes.
That being said, I think Ezekiel's vision is compelling as a way to think about God. This vision looks and feels like the God I have experienced in my own life and in and through your lives. God is like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day. God is like that comfort, that beauty that cannot be described. God is there even while the rain is going on. God is like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day. Yeah... that sounds about right.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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It is like that video a few years ago "double rainbow, whoooooaaaaa". The man watching the rainbow was SO amazed at its beauty and had never seen anything like it. "What does it mean?", he kept asking. It was just too beautiful and too profound. That is God. Love it!
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