Brightly Shining

Did you see the sun today?  It was another beautiful day in paradise and the sun was brightly shining. But there was a little bit of a difference around lunch time today if you were able to look up toward the sun with your sun glasses on. There was a halo around the sun that looked like a rainbow. People started posting pictures and talking about it and asking what it was or telling what they thought it was. If you have been following me very long you know what I did-I "googled" it and pulled up a news web site that talked about it. It explained that there are thin clouds that form high in the atmosphere out of ice crystals. When they bend they refract the light and form the halo that we were able to see today-beautiful!

Mine is the not the best picture since I didn't have my good camera on me at work but it does show it off a little.

You know what? When I looked at this picture or thought about how brightly it was shining today it reminded me how it will pale in comparison to Christ. We are told in the Bible about when Moses went up the mount to get the 10 commandments he saw God and the glory was so bright that he had to wear a veil when he came back down because his face shone from even being in God's presence. 

Exodus 34:32-35

"And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

   And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

   But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

   And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him."

We are also told about the new heaven and new earth in Revelation and we are told that we won't have need of any other lights. We will be able to live one day at a time with Christ.

Revelation 21:23 

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God gave it light, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 

What a day, glorious day that will be-when my Savior's face I shall see!