We see what our ancestors saw

I was looking up at the sky tonight. There was a surreal moonlight thing going on in the clouds. There were stars through the gaps in the clouds. We live in a beautiful world!

Often when I just sit back and admire God's creation, I have a revelation about something. That happened tonight when I took 5 seconds out of my night to stare up at the stars from Hamilton.

I thought back to people thousands of years ago, and realised that almost everything on earth is probably different now than what they would have seen. But not the sky... they would have seen the clouds, stars, sun, and moonlight very similarly to what we see now. It's not surprising that when people think of heaven, they think of the sky. The sky is something that's consistent. The clouds won't change colour. There will always be moonlight and sunrises.

And it's the same with God who is in heaven. God's character is not going to change over the ages of time. He's not going to go back on his promises. Psalm 119:90 is talking to God, and it says "Your faithfulness endures through all the ages; you have set the earth in place, and it remains."

Also, I think we can be more connected to God now than in the past when his secrets were hidden. There is a lot of scripture which tells us this:

Paul writes:
Rom 16:25 Let us give glory to God! He is able to make you stand firm in your faith, according to the Good News I preach about Jesus Christ and according to the revelation of the secret truth which was hidden for long ages in the past.

Eph 3:8 I am less than the least of all God's people; yet God gave me this privilege of taking to the Gentiles the Good News about the infinite riches of Christ,
Eph 3:9 and of making all people see how God's secret plan is to be put into effect. God, who is the Creator of all things, kept his secret hidden through all the past ages,
Eph 3:10 in order that at the present time, by means of the church, the angelic rulers and powers in the heavenly world might learn of his wisdom in all its different forms.
Eph 3:11 God did this according to his eternal purpose, which he achieved through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Eph 3:12 In union with Christ and through our faith in him we have the boldness to go into God's presence with all confidence.

I'm liking this Good News Bible translation :-)
This scripture also shows us it's God working in us..

Col 1:25 And I have been made a servant of the church by God, who gave me this task to perform for your good. It is the task of fully proclaiming his message,
Col 1:26 which is the secret he hid through all past ages from all human beings but has now revealed to his people.
Col 1:27 God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.
Col 1:28 So we preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature individual in union with Christ.
Col 1:29 To get this done I toil and struggle, using the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me.

Kings and prophets longed to see the power of Jesus' resurrection that we can experience today:
Luk 10:23 Jesus turned to his disciples in private and said to them, "How blessed you are to see what you've seen.
Luk 10:24 I can guarantee that many prophets and kings wanted to see and hear what you've seen and heard, but they didn't."

Eph 3:11 above talks about God sending Jesus at the time he did according to his eternal purpose. I don't quite understand that as a human being with limited knowledge, but the preceding sentence gave a little revelation into it. It says that God wanted us and heaven to look back at history and see His wisdom in all it's forms. That's kinda cool... God has a huge history, and I encourage anyone seeking the truth to look back at it to see how he has been working in our world to bring it to what it is!!! I know I'll be reading more of the old testament now.

Finally, God is still the same supreme being that our ancestors worshipped. So that's another thing we see that our ancestors saw. I guess what I'm trying to point out though is that we get to see even more of God than they could have when they were on earth! High five God! Thank you for sending us your only and beloved Son Jesus Christ.

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