We have France to thank for the meter. The French were not too keen on using England’s standard yard – the distance from King Henry’s nose to his outstretched middle finger. (Wonder why?) So French scientists spent ten years measuring the distance from the equator to the North Pole to find something constant they could use in measuring distance. It is hard to imagine, but they took 1/10,000,000 of this number and called it a meter.
Much later, scientists realized that France had made a mistake (imagine that!) by thinking the earth was a perfect sphere, and so in 1983 scientists changed the definition of a meter. Now a meter is the distance light can travel in 1/299,792,458 of a second. Light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second (186,282 miles per second).
While all scientists use science to explain the world, many often use science to try to explain away God. But scientists may have inadvertently affirmed God’s existence with their definition of the meter by admitting that light is the only constant in the universe.. The Bible says “God is light,” and that “in him there is no variableness nor shadow of turning.”
There are some factors however that can affect the speed of light. When light, for example, is sent through a diamond it slows down considerably – to about 80,000 miles per second. Light travels through water at about 100,000 miles per second.
It is interesting to note that John the Revelator describes the throne of God as surrounded by different precious stones. Could it be that what enabled him to see the brilliance of God were the jewels which slowed down the speed of light just enough for his eye to take it in.
Of course God is more than light, and neither is he limited to light-speed. There is only one thing faster than the speed of light – the speed of thought. This is the speed at which God
operates (on a slow day).
I have to hand it to the scientists on this one: they were clever to figure out the length of a meter. But at the end of the day, everyone’s way of expressing God’s majesty is pitiable. I would like to propose to you that when a God-thought comes into a human mind and it intersects the slowed-down speed of light at the center of God’s throne, that becomes what we would call a revelation. And if we could take our eyes off God’s throne, we would see the river of God, as pure as crystal, flowing from the throne, slowing down the speed of light enough for us to see it sparkle.
If is entirely safe to say that we can only see a minute portion of the God who is light. I would surmise that all we could endure would be . . . about a meter’s worth. God is metric, and I have officially switched to the metric system. Have you?
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