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| At first glance, this image looks like a typical winter scene. However, this picture was taken using a camera that only sees Infrared Light. It looks at the same light spectrum as your TV remote uses to change channels. This light is invisible to our eyes and is in the electromagnetic spectrum just beyond what we can see.
I remember using IR cameras in the 70's and 80's in military aerial reconnaissance missions to capture the landscape with the greatest possible clarity over a wide range of atmospheric conditions.
Anything green appears white in IR. Flowers are bright, the sky is dark, but clouds are bright. It is an interesting way to view our world. The Hubble telescope uses IR to see parts of the universe that cannot be seen with normal observation.
Although IR does not include any of the colors from the visible light spectrum, such as the blue sky, colors can be added to an IR picture using a special technique. This is called false color, and is added only for artistic expression.
If the invisible infrared light wasn't captured by the camera sensor for this picture, all we would see would be black darkness.
The Bible talks about being able to see the invisible, it's called faith. As surely as the unseen world of infrared exists, so does the spiritual world that God dwells in. Faith gives us new eyes to see a world beyond ourselves, and to believe in the God of the universe.
God created to heavens and the earth to reveal himself to us through our natural eyes, and He gave us the Bible to reveal himself to us through spiritual eyes.
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith." Rom 1:17 |
