We love windows.
It’s one of the biggest complaints about earth homes, few windows! Our electric bills might be next to zero, but when we can’t see out, we want to pull our hair out.
Give us the penthouse! 360 degree views! Let in the sun to wash our floors. It’s the best thing ever.
However.
It always seems there’s a however, doesn’t it? If we build a house of glass, it costs a fortune to heat and cool. Then there’s rocks. If we throw any, our glass is apt to get cracked.
There’s one more thing about living amid a plethora of windows. Everyone can see in. We can see out, and the sunshine will be plentiful, but everything we do is out there for the world to see. Our only option is to call the decorator. Curtains, we cry! Drape every window! We need privacy!
Has God tried to hide himself behind curtains of mystery? Has he drawn the drapes, leaving man to figure it out on his own?
Not according to the Bible. Look at these five passages:
Isaiah 40:22 says the curtains of heaven are where the Father reveals his majesty:
“It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in.”
In John 1:1 we learn he wrote out his story so there would be no confusion:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Proverbs 8:27-28 reveals the hand of God marking out the very sky above and the oceans below:
“When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit…”
Psalm 104:5 casts the forces of gravity across the cosmos, the hand of the Lord holding whole star systems in alignment:
“He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.”
Genesis 1:1-31 does it all in our back yard:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day...”
We know the rest of this passage, telling of the days of creation, ending in the final day of rest. It’s grand and glorious, filled with majesty and wonder. None of it’s hidden; there are no secrets, no curtains covering the windows of creation, preventing man from looking on God’s magnificent universe. In fact, he draws our eyes upwards, hoping we’ll find him in all he’s done.
It’s God’s truth that blinds the unbeliever. What our Father did at Creation is so magnificent that we can’t see to the Master on the other side. What we need is to stop looking so hard and realize that the glories of the heavens, the star systems, the quasars, the black holes, and all the rest are the truth that cry out the majesty of our God. It’s up to us to see him in what he’s made. That’s truth, and it’s how we come to know him.
There’s no mystery to God. No hidden agendas. He is as he claims to be. Just look up. It’s as plain as the stars in the sky.
The windows of heaven reveal the mighty hand of our God in the cosmic vistas he’s given us to enjoy.
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