Beauty Out Of Nothing
Beauty Out Of Nothing – Gravity Wave Clouds
A few days ago, my husband and I were headed to a Bible study when we saw a beautiful and intriguing sight in the sky.
Check out these linear (also known as lenticular) clouds.
We’ve never seen clouds like this before in our lifetime.
They literally looked like stripes across the sky – white linear clouds alternating in a distinct pattern with blue gaps in between.
Only our creator God can paint beauty out of nothing on an earthly canvas.
Even a child can see it!
What are these clouds anyway?
I immediately texted a meteorologist friend of mine.
A few seconds later, he came back with the answer.
They’re called, “gravity wave clouds.”
Wave clouds – in the sky!
Strictly speaking, it’s when a sudden cold parcel forms above and is forced downward. The splash effect is like when you throw a rock in a pond and watch the waves form and spread outward. – courtesy of Larry Cosgrove, Meteorologist.
Beauty Out Of Nothing – The Majesty of Creator God
Just like a beautiful snowflake, no two clouds are exactly alike.
There are many different shapes and sizes towering up in the sky.
And, with just the right conditions, life-giving rain falls to replenish the earth.
“The clouds and the rain display God’s astonishing control of the world in operations of such delicacy and strength that men can neither understand nor imitate them.” (Andersen)1
God Reveals Himself Through Creation
One of my favorite things to do is to take a drive through the countryside.
I can’t help but stand in awe at the power and majesty of our Sovereign God. He reveals Himself in many ways through His creation and in our hearts and minds.
God created and sustains everything that exists. His power is absolute, and His love is perfect.
What a blessing to know that He created you and me in His own image!
27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. – Genesis 1:27, (NASB).3
We were not created from lower life forms without any value, as evolution suggests.
We are made for much more.
God’s likeness denotes our capacity to rule over creation and be in relationship with God and other humans and to exercise reason, intelligence, speech, moral consciousness, creativity, rationality, and choice. Since the beginning of time, God has desired to bless us and enjoy close fellowship with us, and for this reason He made us like Himself. – Got Questions website.4
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1 Anderson, Francis I. Job (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1975).
2 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
3 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
4 Quotation from gotquestions.org, from “What does it mean when God said, ‘Let us Make Man In Our Image’ Genesis 1:26)? n.d., para. 3. Web. Accessed March 26, 2023. From Genesis.
