The photo above is from this morning between 7:30 and 8:30 I watched the sky just go through amazing things I had never seen before. It all started with a bright vertical light in the sky that looked like a huge spot light had been set up. The problem with that is the sky was already light enough that I should not have been able to see this spot light, but I could.
It was amazing. I found out this phenomena is called a sundog and it is as wikipedia says: "Sundogs are commonly made by the refraction of light from plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals in high and cold cirrus clouds or, during very cold weather, these ice crystals are called diamond dust, and drift in the air at low levels. These crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. If the crystals are randomly oriented, a complete ring around the sun is seen — a halo. But often, as the crystals sink through the air, they become vertically aligned, so sunlight is refracted horizontally — in this case, sundogs are seen.
As the sun rises higher, the rays passing through the crystals are increasingly skewed from the horizontal plane. Their angle of deviation increases, and the sundogs move further from the sun.[8] However, they always stay at the same elevation as the sun."
All I can say is it was amazing and I got to see it for myself. What a gift for me to see. I was telling a friend about it today and as we talked I thought about what the Bible says will happen when Jesus returns for his people.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, NIV. "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."
I can not even begin to imagine what it will be like in the heavens above when Jesus comes down to earth with a loud command . I read this morning in John chapter 12: verses 27-30 that Jesus was saying : " Now My soul is troubled, and what I shall I say ? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour. "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven, saying,"I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." Therefore the people stood and heard it and said it had thundered. Others said," An angel has spoken to Him." Jesus answered and said," This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sakes. "
The point I make here is if I thought this light show I saw this morning was amazing well I have not seen anything yet! If Jesus should return in my lifetime I will see far greater things that what I saw this morning because of cold weather conditions. I am ready ! How about you?
Lord Jesus,
Thank you for the beauty and blessings that can come even in severe temperatures. I was very blessed. Thank you for the reminder of your return one day and the glory and thunder and things to be seen on that great and glorious day. I love you Jesus and look for that glorious day to arrive or my own home coming if that arrives first. In Jesus I say Amen.
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