the Beauty of our Creator

Good day to each of you reading this column and do hope you are doing well.

I get caught up in all the bad news in today’s society such as the political, economic and social problems that we face, but I am reminded that God is still in control and that we are not.

A wise person once said—don’t pet the sweaty things and don’t sweat the petty things—Hmmm, sounds good to me.

By the way, if God is in the passenger’s seat—you best change seats so he is driving!

Back to the beauty of our creator and the beauty of his creation.

Let’s take foliage and correlate to being a Christian—

Are you a daylily? A beautiful flower that opens and dies within 24 hours. You may have a cluster of daylilies from one plant, but the result is the same—blooming is 24 hours and then the bloom dies.

Are you a rose? Blooming begins in the spring season and ends in the fall season of that same year only to go into rest until the next spring and repeat the cycle.

The mighty oak tree begins as an acorn, a small nut that deer and squirrel either eat or move to a place where the acorn begins to enter the ground and grows.

This mighty oak does not become that oak overnight or 24 hours, it grows in season year and year and grows and grows and grows until it becomes the mighty oak that God hath created.

But that oak’s work is not finished, for that mighty oak shed many an acorn to the ground where it feeds many deer and squirrel and other animals.

 As for the rest of the acorns, they too will begin the journey of being placed in the ground as the maturation of the mighty oak begins.

A simple story of the daylily, the rose and the mighty oak—

As a Christian, which foliage category would you place yourself?

May you Bless God in all that you say and do.

Jeff