God’s Colorful Highways

I’ve always been fascinated by God’s colorful highways, stones, and cities. For several years, I’ve been trying to let God out of the box I’d made for Him. I do not want to miss Him as the Pharisees did when Jesus walked among them. How could my visual expectations formed from reading the scriptures through my limited lens be completely correct? I prayed to have my vision expanded, to more fully comprehend God.

The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not; nevertheless, the day shall come when you shall comprehend even God, being quickened in him and by him.

One day, while worshipping in an endowment session, I pondered on the colorful highways of the New Jerusalem.

Revelation 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

The walls of the cube forming the New Jerusalem are 12,000 furlongs, or 1, 500 miles, long. Were there 6,000 miles of layered stone? How did it look?

Suddenly, an image of colorful, infinite galaxies came into view: gold, turquoise, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple galaxies streaming by. What an incredible view of God’s highway—eternal and full of color.

The View from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

I can’t find the exact images I saw, but these fantastic images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Unsplash convey the idea.

I’m not saying these galaxies in space are exactly what the Lord meant by the stones listed in Exodus and Revelation, but I am sharing a way the Lord expanded my expectations that a telestial road in Lubbock, Texas, could not adequately depict the style, form, and being of a road in the celestial New Jerusalem.