There is something about beautiful things. Our eyes are drawn to them. Something in us wants to be a part of it...it brings out our need to worship something. The desire to feel adoration and love, excitement and fulfillment in something. It seems there is something missing that needs to be filled. But in reality, we can only look at it. We are "mere spectators. Beauty has smiled, but not to welcome us:her face was turned in our direction, but not to see us"...(C.S. Lewis from The Weight of Glory)..."We have not been accepted, welcomed, or taken into the dance". It reminds me of looking at the Grand Canyon..we feel a great sense of awe and wonder...but we can't be a part of it's magnificence. Lewis says, " But we pine. The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret". I feel that longing that cannot be filled. I have moments where the Spirit has given me a glimpse, but I can't sustain it. But He put it there! My constant desire to know and be known. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end" Eccl. 3:11. If I didn't constantly feel like something was missing, would I seek Him? Would I look for His beauty, after I was done chasing after all the beautiful things that can be seen, but are temporary? Maybe not. Maybe I would just be satisfied to worship creation instead of the Creator? I can't wait for the day when "I shall know fully, even as I am fully known" 1Cor 13:12...to the praise of His glorious grace.
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