I love the concept of clouds veiling Christ’s glory. I love that one day, the clouds will be rolled back as a scroll. I love teaching these principles to my children, because clouds are something they can see and identify with. I love the look of wonder in their eyes as they try to fathom the clouds being His chariot. I love the song Days of Elijah. And I love this quote by Oswald Chambers (I also love him, but I’ll have to talk about that in another post) from the July 29 entry of My Upmost for His Highest, recently quoted in our Bible study.
“In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our personal lives, which seem to dispute the rule of God. It is by those very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were no clouds, we should have no faith. ‘The clouds are but the dust of our Father’s feet’ (see Nahum 1:3). The clouds are a sign that He is there … Through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in the cloud is to simplify our belief until our relationship to Him is exactly that of a child–God and my own soul, other people are shadows … Unless we can look the darkest, blackest fact full in the face without damaging God’s character, we do not yet know Him.”
“…clouds are not signs of His absence. Indeed, within them we most often His presence.” Beth Moore
When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand.
