Aerial photo of the Andes, from Wikipedia
What would it be like to walk on clouds? Some people seem to, as they are finding God in nature in the Andes in Bolivia.
Salar de Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat. According to the travel article “Mysterious Sights” on the Bing Travel Blog, when the area becomes covered by water, it “becomes a mirror, and anyone walking across it appears to be walking on clouds.”
The salt crust is high in the mountains at just a few feet under 12,000 feet elevation above sea level. It covers more than 4,000 square miles. The area is nearly flat which, interestingly, “makes it ideal for calibrating the altimeters of satellites,” the article said. It is also “a major breeding ground for several species of flamingoes.”
Common thoughts of heaven pictured it as people (or angels with wings) sitting on clouds lazily strumming harps. Maybe those images come from verses in the Bible like Revelation 14:1-3 and Revelation 15:2-3.
When we get to heaven I don’t know if we’ll be able to walk on clouds or expertly play harps, but this I do know, there will come a day when Jesus the Christ will come again. Before Jesus was crucified, when He was still alive on the earth, He talked about what it would be like when He comes again. He said:
“At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens” (Revelation 14:1-3)
After Jesus was crucified and died, he was raised from the dead and talked with many people. The last group He talked with watched as He was taken into heaven like this:
“After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
“They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. ‘Men of Galilee,’ they said, ‘why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven’” (Acts 1:9-11).
Revelation 1:7 says, “Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him…” [ ]
Are you watching for Him? When you see Him walking on clouds, will you recognize Him? We live in a magnificent world that God created and in all kinds of mysterious places we can find God. We can even be finding God in nature in the Andes in Bolivia.
Copyright ©Dianne E. Butts ( www.delivermebook.blogspot.com). Dianne has over 275 articles and short fiction in more than fifty publications and eighteen books, and is a regular contributor to Finding God Daily.
Here is a video with a song and beautiful photos of the earth and animals, posted on YouTube: I Believe-by Andie Isle.
