Flying High Perspective

Flying at 34,000 feet, being above the clouds, provides one with a perspective unlike any that can be obtained from a ground level vantage point. Yesterday as we were traveling from Raleigh to Ft. Worth there were what seemed like thousands of fluffy white cumulus clouds below casting their shadows on the ground below. Those shadows took on the shape of their cloud creator. That shape cannot be seen by those on the ground. As we walk in that shadow we look up at the cloud and say, “The sun has gone behind the cloud.” Flying above the cloud we can tell that is not what has happened. It is the cloud that has moved to a point so that the sun has been blotted from that particular point on the earth, therefore, causing the shadow.

The sun and the airplane are higher than the clouds. Those in the airplane can see what those on the ground cannot see. They see hundreds of clouds and hundreds of shadows. They can even see the movement of the clouds, and see where the shadow is headed, the area that will soon be in the shadow. We who are down below cannot tell what is going to happen. We cannot know for sure where the cloud is going or who the shadow will cover.

God is higher than the earth, the clouds and the sun. The Bible says, “The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, the one who sits enthroned high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth.” Psalm 113. God is higher than the nations and the heavens. He know our days perfectly, the days that the sun will shine on us, and the days when shadows will overcome us. There is nothing he does not know or cannot handle. Regardless of our bright times or our dark times God’s love for us remains the same. We can always trust him to blow those dark clouds away to remove the shadows from our lives.