Signs In The Sky

If we bother to look up, we see signs in the sky every day. My mom taught me to look up. “Notice the architecture, the trees, and sometimes the Northern Lights.” There are amazing things to see when we practice looking up. This photo has a new moon and Venus emerging from the clouds

On the fourth day of Creation God created the lights in the heavens, placing the sun, moon and stars in the sky. “And God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:20-23 The Hebrew calendar is based on the movements of the moon, called a lunar calendar. Islam also follows a lunar calendar. These movements are helpful, and sometimes important for us to know.

Our Creator knows how to communicate with signs in the sky, however, we sometimes get the messages jumbled. At the same time the Word makes it clear that we are to depend on our Creator and not on what He created. (Deuteronomy 4; Isaiah 47) For example; God created astronomy, to guide the seasons, but people created astrology. The latter is putting faith in stars and not in God.

A friend and I were praying one day last summer on a hilltop with a moderate but steady wind. We noticed a golden eagle soaring in circles on the updrafts overhead. keeping an eye on him, we then noticed a cloud formation that resembled an eagle. We stayed in that area for twenty to thirty minutes, and the cloud remained in place the entire time. When we began to move away, both eagles flew away. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cloud that is stationary. Were we “under the shadow of His wings?”

I have seen a lot of signs in the sky, but this one may win the prize for the most unusual, yet. The sun was up behind the clouds, now empty of the snow they recently deposited. I am still contemplating this one, but I am fairly certain it is not an UAP: ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, or UFO as they used to be called. 

Abba, I love that you create signs in the sky for us. Some to guide us, some to entertain us and some for us to puzzle out. I thank you for my mother who taught me to look up. May we always worship and depend on you our Maker, and not on the things you make.