I watched, mesmerized, as the cloud moved slowly forward. Toward the light. I felt there was a message in this seemingly random happenstance. And, as the cloud drifted slowly forward, I saw it. As clear as the morning sun. As the cloud moved closer to the light, more and more of it began to reflect the golden light. Then, just one thin silver streak of lightning stretched down from the gray-blue of the cloud toward the ground.
WOW. What a spectacular moment, LORD! What a promise!
If I just stay on course toward my God, I will reflect more and more of His love, grace, and mercy. HIS VERY IMAGE. I will look more and more like my FATHER.
But that wasn't it for the lesson from the cloud. No, God had more for me to see. A lot more. The next morning, I remembered thinking about the distinction between the SOURCE of the light and the light. As I reread what I had written the day before, it suddenly became clear. When I focus on things other than God - even good things like writing my prayers, Bible plans, Bible and prayer journals, discipline and organization, checking off those things in my calendar - even things of God rather than just GOD, the SOURCE, I get distracted from the main thing, the SOURCE of the POWER, and I get disconnected.
The cloud continued to move toward the SOURCE; it didn't stop in the light and just soak up what it provided in that one place. It didn't focus on the light and sit still in it while striving to reflect more of it. It kept moving ever so steadily toward the SOURCE, its focus ever before it, not turned toward the light it was reflecting itself. And, as it moved toward the SOURCE, more and more light was reflected.
And more and more power was added to the cloud to keep it steadily moving forward. The Lightning! That one silver streak that reached down from the cloud and touched the ground. That symbol of God's power available to me when I keep my eyes on Him and move steadily closer.
Dear Precious LORD Jesus, help me keep this image in mind ready to pull out to remind me whenever I take my eyes off the SOURCE - YOU, the GREAT I AM, the CREATOR, the ALMIGHTY, the OMNIPRESENT, the ALPHA and the OMEGA.
Help me fix my eyes on You, LORD. Help me remember that I DO KNOW the ANSWER to every question. It is YOU, the SOURCE, of EVERYTHING.
As my friend Lisa pointed out to me, not one other soul saw that cloud at that exact moment from that exact location, set of coordinates, or angle. You showed it just to me! What a treasured moment with You, Father. Wow! Thank YOU!!
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