Writing about God as Cloud gave me a new perspective while flying last week. The clouds visible from the plane had taken on a life of their own. It became apparent that clouds were programmed not only to provide water, shade, and climate control, but also that they were connected.
The connection between the clouds was not visible. But, each cloud affected the other clouds, the earth below, and the amount of light reflected back into the stratosphere. Looking at clouds on the weather channels showed them free-wheeling over the earth, following patterns that they helped to cause.
Then, the thought that God was in, or in direct control, of all the clouds became inescapable. The “cloud-nature” of God was reasonable in that He had chosen to make clouds simply to give us a better idea of what He was like.
As a plane rises through the clouds, we see that the bottoms of them tend to be far flatter than the mountainous, moving tops. The whirling midst through which we fly shows how God permeates everything.
