In high school, my daughter played on the girls’ varsity basketball team. During the finals of the district tournament, a player on the other team severely injured my daughter’s eye. I turned to God in prayer, and immediately the thought came that there is a firmament in place that forever separates God’s children from accident, injury, or pain. 

What is a firmament? In the spiritual record of creation found in the first chapter of the Bible, God commanded, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. . . . And God called the firmament Heaven” (Genesis 1:6, 8). The ancient Hebrews thought of the firmament as a solid expanse separating the waters on the earth from what they perceived as the waters in the sky—the clouds that held the rain. 

Injury, loss, and fear are false beliefs and can never disrupt, damage, or change the eternal facts of harmonious being.