Magnetism is an amazing phenomenon. Hold up a sliver of a magnet, and it always points due north. Energize it with superconductive techniques, and it will remain permanently suspended around an object, neither touching nor falling away.
Magnetism does more for our planet, though. It creates the Northern Lights. In Iceland, during the long winter darkness, the fantastic display is visible the entire season.
Wow! And here is something even better: The amazing thing is not that magnets behave as they do. The truly amazing, astounding reality is that those very behaviors are also found in our incredible God.
Let’s look to the scriptures for evidence of God’s magnetic properties:
Magnetic Example #1:
Everything about our existence points to God. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Jesus is the only goal worth striving for. He pulls us his direction. We can fight his drawing power, and we can skew off in our own direction, but he always continues to draw us toward him.
Magnetic Example #2:
John 10:30 says: “I and the Father are one.” They are magnets, superconductively suspended in tandem, unable to be broken apart.
Colossians 1:15-17 continues with, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
There is no distinction between Jesus and his Father. If we have seen one, we have seen the other. They act in accord with each other’s wishes. We can depend on both to be in agreement on everything and at all times.
Magnetic Example #3:
God shines with the beauty of his glory, at no time more spectacularly than when we are in the middle of the darkest times of our lives. In fact, just as the residents of Iceland cannot see the Northern Lights in the warmth of summer, we find the real power of God in our troubled hours.
Revelation 21:2 gives us an apt description: “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
A few verses later, Revelation 21:11 compares his beauty to something that can only be the Northern Lights of heaven: “Having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.”
We can play tricks with magnetism, make electricity with magnetism, and launch airplanes off aircraft carriers with magnetism. All that is fantastic, but the most important thing magnetism does for us is protect Earth from deadly bombardments of solar radiation. Again, that’s God, for he is the one that protects us from the deadly bombardments of the devil.
And amazingly, that’s when he shows up most brilliantly in all his glorious colors.
God not only draws us to him; he repels that which tries to destroy us.
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