A higher view

A friend sent me this satellite pic, which is fascinating. It is a view from space, which catches the fall of darkness, gradually spreading over the globe at sunset. Half the picture is in night, the other half yet day! The bright dots are city lights...

The foreground is the west of Africa -- note the sand of the Sahara Desert, glowing in night and day. The lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, are the Cape Verde Islands.

At the top left, is just a bit of frozen Greenland.

Amazing!

I appreciated its perspective...reminded me again of a powerful dream...definitely a higher view! And this is photo shows us just a partial spatial difference! The God that we worship not only enjoys complete spatial perspective, but also temporal, dimensional, and moral -- perfectly, in all perspectives.

Now we begin to see a bit of His glory!

We can trust that kind of God: Our Lord sees perfectly, and loves utterly -- He is the One who orders our path, and 'calleth the night, day' and 'calleth forth those things which are not, to confound the things that are!'

As the song puts it so well:

Who compares to You?
Who set the stars in their place?
You who calmed the raging seas
That came crashing over me.

Who compares to You?
You who bring the morning light,
The hope of all the earth
Is rest assured in Your great love.

You are magnificent,
Eternally wonderful, glorious.
Jesus, no one ever will compare
To You, Jesus.

Where the evening fades,
You call forth songs of joy.
As the morning wakes,
We Your children give You praise.

You are magnificent,
Eternally wonderful, glorious.
Jesus, no one ever will compare
To You, Jesus.

Jesus, no one ever will compare
To You, Jesus.
No one ever will compare
To You, Jesus.

Alleluia!

Amen.