The leaves are starting to change color around here. Over the past week, we've had a couple of cold fronts that have brought night-time temperatures into the 30s, which means that the leaves start to show their beautiful colors, and the air gets a bit of a nip to it in the mornings.
In some ways, I think fall here where I live is the most beautiful time of the year. The grass is still green, not scorched brown from the summer anymore. The leaves show their bright colors before they start to find their way to the ground. And then, looking up to the tops of the mountains, the white snow starts to blanket the ground.
Psalm 19 starts off by declaring that the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky His handiwork. It seems that this world also likes to display the creativeness and splendor of God. And the thing is, this is a broken, fallen, cursed world (read Genesis 3:17-19). Can you imagine the beauty and splendor of a world that isn't cursed, that knows no sin?
That's the world that is promised to those who believe that Jesus lived, died, and rose again for them. He has purchased your ticket to that world, and you get that ticket by believing that He has washed you and made you perfect through His blood. Just think of the splendor of that world, which awaits us when He shows Himself once again and re-creates this world.
In some ways, I think fall here where I live is the most beautiful time of the year. The grass is still green, not scorched brown from the summer anymore. The leaves show their bright colors before they start to find their way to the ground. And then, looking up to the tops of the mountains, the white snow starts to blanket the ground.
Psalm 19 starts off by declaring that the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky His handiwork. It seems that this world also likes to display the creativeness and splendor of God. And the thing is, this is a broken, fallen, cursed world (read Genesis 3:17-19). Can you imagine the beauty and splendor of a world that isn't cursed, that knows no sin?
That's the world that is promised to those who believe that Jesus lived, died, and rose again for them. He has purchased your ticket to that world, and you get that ticket by believing that He has washed you and made you perfect through His blood. Just think of the splendor of that world, which awaits us when He shows Himself once again and re-creates this world.
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