God is greater than the greatest of sunsets

Today was the last day of camp.

It's bitter sweet I guess but I'm more sad then anything.

I c a n n o t believe it's over already. I feel like I was just up at night thinking about training weekend and now it's all done. The whole summer happened already. How does that happen?

I wrote a bunch of posts at the beginning of the summer about how different this summer was going to be. I was dreading the change-like quality of it weeks before my classes were over. I thought about and anticipated every little thing that would be different.

And you know what?

It WAS different. It was very different.

but....it wasn't bad.

What?? It was different but it WASN'T bad..!

Let this be a lesson for myself.

This was the best summer I've had yet at Carson Simpson, out of the other couple years I've worked there. The staff was SO great this year. It really felt like everyone was a team and we worked so well together. It was so fun to watch everyone day after day, encourage each other, and be silly but still get things done at the same time.

It was harder to leave this year because unlike the other years, I'm not entirely sure I'll be back next year.
I'm so amazed at how God worked this year at camp and I'm praising Him for working through it all.

I went on a walk tonight and it was really nice. (more about the walk later)I realized that this year, almost more than any other year, I really don't want to leave home and go back to school. I think, more than anything, this is because I know it's my last year, and I know when it starts it'll F L Y by. So if it never starts...it can never end! eh? (soo...in that logic, I don't want it to start at all. Ever. )
because like I already talked about in my other posts...I'm scared for the big life change that comes after college.


BUT, back to my walk.

I don't know why but I really felt like going for a walk, so I walked up to the park. I didn't really think about it before I left, but it just so happens that I started walking around sunset time. (My favorite!)

It was such a refreshing walk. I had some good think-time, good God-time, not to mention some exercise=)
It was exactly what I needed.
I love the way the summer air smells, and the green grass, and the quietness of a walk by yourself.
After I got to the park I found a big rock to sit on and I started to watch the sunset. It was GORGEOUS. Sunsets take my breath away every time. And to think, this is just one small piece of God and His greatness. He is so much greater than the greatest of sunsets!


I got to thinking about how sunsets are like God in a couple of different ways.

When I was walking to the park I was walking in the direction of the sunset. It was so nice because I could walk forward and I was able to gaze at the amazing beauty directly in front of me. I could see it the whole way to the park.

Eventually I got to a point where I wanted to turn around and start walking back the other way.
It was then that I realized the other way just wasn't as good, or beautiful/refreshing, because I could no longer see the sun. It was behind me. I was walking away from it in the other direction. Simply put, the walk was so much better going the other way! It hit me that this is just like God. When we walk towards Him, having Him in full view, it makes the "walk" so much better. When we have our backs to God or we can't see Him anymore things just aren't as good. If we aren't standing in awe of God, what are we doing? What else are we walking towards if not Him?

So as I started walking back I kept taking glances behind me so that I could see the sunset more. This is when I realized, the farther away I got, the more magnificent it all looked. When I could see more of this glorious creation it put me in even more awe and I just had to turn around and stare at it.

God is HUGE. He is so big that words do not do Him justice. We only hold a small piece of Him in our minds. The more we grasp of God and who He is, the more He puts US in awe. When we can SEE more of Him, when we can take in more clearly all that He is,we are that much more amazed at His beauty and majesty.
More than anything it made me think of Heaven. When we get there we'll be able to see and know ALL of who God is.(We'll be able to see that WHOLE sunset) Instead of just a small piece, we will be able to see all of Him! Praise Jesus! =)


12For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as [e]in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand [f]fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been [g]fully and clearly known and understood [[h]by God]. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (amp)


Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." 9Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11"You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being." Rev. 4:8-11