Tangible Reminders

I was reading in my bible this morning about the description of Jesus written in Revelation chapter 1 verses 9-16. The last verse says, "His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance." I tried to sketch a drawing of those 6 verses to try to wrap my mind around 'what I can only imagine'. My art skills are lacking to put it nicely. But it made an impact at any rate. One of my daily goals recently is to not stop reflecting and pondering what I have read in the bible that morning.
I want to fear the Lord. I want to know Jesus as my Master and Savior and Best Friend forever. I want to understand what He looks like. I want to imagine what I will see when I get to my real home; when I am greeted in the clouds by my King of Kings! Oh I truly can only imagine. To be perfectly honest the description seems so bright, so hot, so beyond my eyes to see that I wonder if I can get near Him. I know I can hear him and I loved the description of his voice. It said His voice was like the sound of rushing waters. I love to think of that sound -- it fills my mind with peace, gentleness, and fresh air to breathe.
I was driving the kids to swimming lessons today and we were driving right into the sun. My 2 year old is so sensitive. He is always quick to yell out his discontent about the brightness and today as he yelled my 6 year old daughter said, "just close your eyes."
The brilliance of the sun! That was it...the verses from this morning became tangible. I excitedly began to tell the kids about Jesus' description. I told them to just close their eyes and think about Jesus being like the sun shining in all it's brilliance. And then she said the sweetest words, "I feel like I am being held in Jesus' arms." My 6 year old helped me understand that we might go blind with our earthly eyes but our soul is comforted and drawn near by His brilliance. When He is holding us in His arms, we are covered and protected and the world cannot stand to look at us because of the shining brilliance of Jesus. In Jesus arms, we are not blinded because we know we have arrived into our Creator's embrace. Just as a child settles and rests their head on a parents shoulder so we can do the same with Jesus; our eyes can close and we can just be HELD.
surrounded by all His glory.
hearing the whispers like rushing waters in our ear.
and He says, "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever!"
So tomorrow fix your eyes on the Sun and then just close them and be HELD in the tangible reminder.