water colors

The past few days we have experienced glorious weather.  Part of the beauty has come from deep blue skies painted with an infinite variety of clouds.  There were thin, wispy cirrus clouds, billowing cumulus clouds and layered stratus clouds.  There were times when all three types of cloud were visible at the same time.  It struck me that clouds are made of nothing more than water.  The reason that clouds appear white is due to the elevation of the clouds which causes the water to be frozen into ice crystals that reflect the sun's light in a fresh white that contrasts so strikingly against the azure sky.  That 's the scientific reason that clouds are white and the sky is beautiful.  But I think that the Lord uses the sky to give us a foretaste of heaven.  He takes the vast expanse of the blackness of space, which is void of almost anything to reflect light  and interposes a glorious cover of reflected light, decorated with clouds just as He has taken the blackness of our hearts and covered them with His grace that we might reflect His Son.  Just as He has done with the simple water-formed clouds which stand in glorious relief against the sky, so He has done with the simple clay pots of our lives, which stand in glorious relief against the rest of His creation.  The sky keeps us looking up!   Job 35:5 Look to the heavens and see;       And behold the clouds—       They are higher than you.   blessings, Rob Smith