Comet

I rode 60 miles today on my bike. That was a long ride.

I was thinking along the way, that people are, in a way, like comets.

Let’s say a person is the comet, and the sun is God.

A comet, way, way out in space is a frozen hunk of stuff. As the comet nears the sun it warms up. The warmth of the sun and the solar wind begin to thaw the comet, and the inner make-up of the comet begins to come to the surface. It transforms from a frozen rock, invisible, to an amazingly beautiful sight in the sky, with a blazing coma (head) and long magnificent tail. The actual rock of a comet is very small and invisible to us, but the coma and tail of a comet are spectacular and visible for millions upon millions of miles. So, proximity to the sun draws out the beauty of the comet, which, in outer space, is just a plain old frozen rock, invisible to the universe.

So it is with a person. As we draw near to God he draws out the beauty within us, and magnifies it for all to see.

The difference is the comet is irresistibly drawn to the sun by gravity, and a person, even though God is drawing him to himself, can choose to stay out in the far reaches of space, a frozen rock, invisible, incomplete, unfulfilled. Like a seed never planted, never becoming what it was intended to be.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. James 4:8