I am a lover of science - physics both mystifies and intriques me. I'm also a keeper of magazines that I mean to get around to reading, thus recently I picked up a 2008 Discover Magazine. In it was a piece about invisibility cloaks - concealing objects from anything that travels as a wave. Fans of 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' know them as cloaking devices. Its no longer science fiction as scientists have engineered metamaterial to cloak items - bending the incoming waves of light or sound (submarines can hide from sonar - the unfortunate concert goer behind a column can still hear the music). Reading that I thought of how we, as Believers, have our own cloaking device - the love of GOD surrounds us and protects us. We will not always be free from physical or emotional harm, but the cruel barbs and arrows of the enemy that would affect our Soul are deflected through GOD's love and compassion. I think of David as a boy who came against the giant and heavily armed Goliath. He said "Thou comest to me with a sword, a spear and a shield but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts." He is our shield - or cloaking device. "For in the time of trouble, He shall hide me in his pavilion." Psalm 27:5PHOTO: Prescott Spring Iris
