Moonbow

Lunar Rainbow at Victoria Falls

Just when you think the earth’s beauty has been mined and you’re familiar with the jewels, another one pops up.  I was not aware of the “rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon rather than from direct sunlight.” Though faint, often appearing white to our eyes, the colors do appear in long exposure photographs.

A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow, lunar bow or white rainbow) is a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon rather than from direct sunlight. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light reflected from the surface of the moon. They are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon.
A true moonbow is lit from the Moon itself. A colored rainbow when the sun is setting or when it is darker out is not a moonbow because it is still produced by sunlight. Moonbows have been mentioned at least since Aristotle, in his Meteorology, circa 350 BC, and in 1847, and the term moonbow was used by Nick Whelan who sighted one of the first documented moonbows in Eastern Utah.

In other words, they could not have been easily seen before current technology.  How much more is waiting for just the right technology to display to us?

Almost as much as what is waiting for us in God’s word as we seek His will.  Before we seek Him, we are much as Jeremiah described:

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: (Jeremiah 5:21 KJV)

Jesus described His disciples, too, when the misunderstood a lesson:

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? (Mark 8:18 KJV)

With the psalmist, we need to seek our Lord in prayer:

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. (Psalms 119:18 KJV)

What we receive in return cannot be described:

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV)

We do know it comes with good and with love, for that is God:

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (1 John 4:8 KJV)

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. (Psalms 73:1 KJV)