Hope for Beyond

I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
Isaiah 46.11

The sky is a piercing blue today, Not just a fair weather blue, but a colour that somehow goes beyond what it is as a simple colour. It is more than a perfect scattering of a smattering hue, with depth like a thought. How can a colour produce a feeling of depth? Interestingly, the sky, and its wide range of colour palettes, does invoke an array of feelings from good to bad, depending on the colour presented.

Have you gotten caught outside somewhere in the country when some dark, menacing clouds build and display a sense of danger on the way? Seeing a dark grey or black sky with swirling clouds usually motivates one to go to a safe interior location and wait out the stormy weather that could arrive. But it may not arrive. There isn't a promise or guarantee that the dark clouds will hover over your location and produce a storm.

In contrast, we have a promise and guarantee of what will come. The Word of God is around us all the time. Hovering, dwelling, seeping into everything that we touch, taste, and see. And one day, He will come. The Son of God will be here again. This goes against the norm of our everyday predictions, such as weather forecasts. We cannot predict the arrival, but we are guaranteed that it will happen.

Science studies the regular ways in which God sustains the universe. We can make assumptions and see how the world is sustained in that environment. We can run tests and experiments to see if the theory is correct, according to our world and the rules here. 

Miracles are God's sustaining redemptive purposes that are different from the regular way God sustains, so it cannot be replicated, nor can it be fully explained by science. Why should we be surprised by the possibility of something that we cannot explain from a God we cannot fully understand? 

This is the mystery of faith. Believing in something that is not the norm in our world. This coincides with C.S. Lewis' musing that if we long for something that cannot be satisfied here, then we must be made for another world. Indeed, we are.