All the Colors of the Rainbow

How valuable is our ability to see? It is a fragile, exquisite and intricate gift. Messages of profound significance are communicated visually, and in deeply personal ways, when using body language, writing, and the arts. Of all the senses, the loss of this one has the greatest impact on our ability to function, and causes catastrophic changes in life.

The medium of vision is light itself. An incredible amount of information is received within it's context. Light's most amazing property, which we cannot perceive without the right help or circumstance, is demonstrated when the light breaks through the rainclouds, and we see all the colors of the rainbow! In clear, pure "white" light, all the colors are hidden from our eyes! It is only through the agency of light that all the colors (and shapes and movement) of our world are revealed! We are so used to it, that we take it for granted. It is simply how things ARE.

It is no wonder that the Lord uses vision, sight, and seeing, as euphemisms for understanding the spiritual. He represents Himself as light (full of rainbows of meaning.) The spirit world is hidden from our physical eyes, the same way the rainbow exists all around us, with us yet unaware. Yet through the vehicle of the very faith God gifts us, we can choose to open spiritual eyes to the meaning that is HIM. By faith, we understand. "Man says 'show me and I will trust You', while God says, 'Trust me and I will show you.'" This transaction must be settled the way God ordains it, before we can have the epiphany of looking around us, or considering our circumstance, and seeing the Lord's sure hand at work. (Wondering why we didn't see the obvious before.)

Rainbows to ya!