“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.” – Colossians 1:15-16
In 1672, in the first paper that he submitted to the Royal Society, Isaac Newton described an experiment in which he permitted sunlight to pass through a small hole and then through a prism. Newton found that sunlight, which looks white to us, is actually made up of a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow. This was the first recorded experiment in the science of spectroscopy.
Centuries later, the concept of spectroscopy was expanded greatly to include any interaction with radioactive energy as a function of its wavelength or frequency.
This means scientists are able to measure and classify energy not only in the visible spectrum, but also the invisible wave spectrum such as microwaves, terahertz waves, infrared waves, near-infrared waves, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, and gamma wavelengths through spectroscopy.
Though humans struggle with the invisible and rely on the visible, everything is in plain sight to the Lord. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is the image of the invisible God and that all things, both visible and invisible, were created by Him and for Him.
“I can study the life of Jesus Christ, for He alone reveals God in totality. He alone is the ‘image of the invisible God.’” – Jon Courson
God’s Word: “No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.” – John 1:18
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