Yesterday I saw a video on the Internet that first had me laughing and then got me to thinking. It’s a video of a hiker who comes upon a full, double rainbow and then totally freaks out over it. He’s just literally overwhelmed by the rainbow. You can watch the video here:
http://thebubble.msn.com/#/video/?id=d70a19a2-6248-406f-9e31-a44c6cdbbcef
At first I thought, “Man, I think the air must be a leeeetle too thin where this guy is, or maybe he’s just smoking something.” I’m still not convinced he wasn’t just completely out to lunch, as he kept taking the Lord’s name in vain through the video, however, it did get me thinking. The guy ends up sobbing and saying, “It’s too much, it’s so beautiful.” Which seemed a little excessive over a rainbow. Until I thought some more.
I’ve been reading and studying Francis Chan’s book, Crazy Love with my women’s Sunday School class. In the first chapter he asks us to read the description of God in Revelation 4.
“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. 3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. And from the throne proceed flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. 7 And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” 9 And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 “Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they existed, and were created.”
In the book Francis asks, If you came into the throne room of God, into this scene, before this God, what would be the first words out of your mouth? And then to realize, this is the God we approach every time we pray. I think we might all sound a little bit like the babbling idiot in the video.
It just got me thinking that maybe I need to laugh at the guy a little less (although the video is still pretty funny), and enjoy and worship God more. I need to cry out, “God it’s too much!” when I see evidence of his majesty and mercy and glory in creation. I probably need to be a little freaked out by a rainbow.
“Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds Thy hands have made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
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