This Little Light Of Mine

I'm gonna let it shine.

An Eternal Yarn

I am struck by the use of blue, purple, scarlet, white and gold when it came to making the tabernacle and to making the priestly garments. I had always pictured the priests in white flowing robes but according to scripture they where much more colorful then I pictured in my minds eye. It seems that color is very important to God.

As I ponder the idea of God expressing Himself in color, I considered Glory of the Lord as revealed between the cherubim, I curiously wonder, “What did that physically look like”. At first I am stuck with my picture of white, like Revelations chapter 1. But further reading in chapter 4 finds a very colorful revelation of God, since color is so important to God, He might choose to physically manifest His glory to Israel from the Ark of the Covenant in the same colors He chose to for the priestly clothing.

Along with color, I am curious as to what shape or form God would choose for his glory. As He asks that we not make an image or likeness of Him, I believe that the shape God would choose to take would reflect Himself, yet not be confused as a “likeness” of Himself. I like to think that an eternal God would reveal Himself in a shape that best represents eternity to a mind that is bound by time. A sphere best illustrates eternity for me.

I see spheres in everything. The sphere of our universe. The sphere like shape of the galaxies. The sphere shapes of the planets, all the way down to the sphere of the atom, including the sphere shaped things that make up the atom. I like to think that the physical shape of our soul would be a sphere.

In my imagination, this eternal sphere is expressed as a strand of reality connected in an infinite loop, wound around itself talking the form of a sphere, existing as a solid object, complete and whole from any viewing angle. I think it’s possible that God revealed His glory between the cherubim as a sphere, swaddled in the colors that He chose as important.

The “eternal yarn” is four colored strands tied together. Unwrapped they would form a large ring. Wrapped around themselves they create a sphere, an eternal sphere with no “beginning” and no “end”. A picture of eternity. Representing the infinite God interacting with us, connecting the finite with the infinite, making it possible for us to be in relationship with God.

The picture is what I imagine the glory of God looked like enthroned between the Cherubim. The “eternal yarn” is a physical attempt to express what I imagine. It being an expression of the idea as I’m not sure I can ever physically create what I see in my imagination.

The following scripture are some of the scripture that inspired my imagination for the use of color, shape and location.

Exo 28:4, 5, 15 These are the garments they are to make: a chestpiece, an ephod, a robe, a patterned tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother, Aaron, and his sons to wear when they serve Me as priests. So give them fine linen cloth, gold thread, and blue, purple, and scarlet thread.

Exo 28:15 “Then, with great skill and care, make a chestpiece to be worn for seeking a decision from God. Make it to match the ephod, using finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.

Exo 25:22 I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the atonement cover between the gold cherubim that hover over the Ark of the Covenant. From there I will give you My commands for the people of Israel.

Num 7:89 Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark's cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The LORD spoke to him from there.

2Ki 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the LORD: "O LORD, God of Israel, You are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.

Eze 9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel rose up from between the cherubim, where it had rested, and moved to the entrance of the Temple. And the LORD called to the man dressed in linen who was carrying the writer's case.

Psa 80:1 For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be sung to the tune "Lilies of the Covenant." Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph's descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display Your radiant glory.

1Ch 28:2 David rose to his feet and said: "My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a temple where the Ark of the LORD's Covenant, God's footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it,

Lament

Truth and beauty seem but a rumor, a fleeting notion, a glimpse, a glance, and then vanished.

Love and peace seem but distant melodies, barely audible, a cry of the heart, beset with life’s noise.

Justice and mercy seem but a dream, a soul’s desire, rarely tasted, lost in the polarized confusion of “what is truth?”

Life, this ashen figurine, dancing just beyond the straining hand, collapses into dust on contact.