Revelation in the Dark

Last night in the dark mountain sky, I saw something I never imagined seeing.  As one who has not envisioned a trip to Alaska, or other far northern regions, I never figured on seeing the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights.  I would have missed it completely had a friend not called me out to see in the heavens what had been missed.  It was for this old guy who has lived out life within the boundaries of deep Southern regions a moment akin to watching a glorious sunset, or standing in the waters of a surging surf.    

The creation is as marvelous as it is mysterious.   When it seems that there is nothing more to see, there is still some new amazing thing which unfolds in awe inspiring splendor.  What we have never seen, we suddenly see and what we see is suddenly gone.  Such is the nature of the creation and such is the nature of the Creator.  The means through which He reveals Himself to us are more numerous than the sands of the seas, or the stars of the sky, but those moments of holy revelation are more like the pulsating colors of the Northern Lights in that only those who pay attention with the eyes and ears of the heart are able to see and know.   

Psalm 24:1 says, "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it..."  Since the earth bears the imprint of the holy Creator and since it all belongs to Him, what should cause us to doubt that there is some part of it which does not have the capacity to reveal the Creator to us and to bring glory to Him?  It is not that the Creator God is the tree, or the roaring sea, or the Northern Lights, but that all things are a means of revealing Himself to those who are paying attention to what He is doing.  He is always revealing Himself in the ordinary things which are all around us and every now and again, there is that moment that belongs to the extraordinary and the unexpected which break in upon us as surely as the bush that burned but was not consumed burned in the life of Moses.