Just a little breath of God’s amazing skill: pale pink and amber light whisked together, dangled between layers of morning dew and tender wisps of clouds. A quiet moment, before the busyness of the day begins. Hushed soil begins to silently cry out as plant life stretches its weary forms from the earth to the warmth it’s been waiting for.
How does it know? What truly wakes it from its ragged slumber beneath the rippled waste of last fall’s organic matter? Which was, by the way, last year’s glorious display of greens, browns, yellows and all the colors of the rainbow, it too makes the same journey from beneath the ravaged decaying plant mass. On and on it goes, in command of its “Maker;” year after year without our instruction or help.
Struggling to begin anew, I see small plants and bulbs pushing against the debris. Like mistakes of the past given over to God, all things become “new.” New growth, new hope, new plans, new opportunities, broken dreams-replaced with new or better ones.
It’s pushing its way up, I can see the change now as the sun seeks its appointed date on the horizon. The beautiful pink gold painting begins to make way for the more brilliant and perfect light of the sun. As glorious and amazing was its display, it can’t compare with what my eyes now collect to my senses.
The golden disk rises silently to bring about the change and without a word of hesitation, amber and pink flee from its hold on the canvas of earth’s land and sky. Rightly so, it gives up its right to its moment of unequalled by earthly standards beauty.
It’s like a soul who, long weary, from the work it is called to do, and it is content and ready to flee to its rest in the arms of Jesus. The sun fully rises, the night is completely wiped away. Day begins almost with the sound of cymbals.
With the knowledge of the “Son in our hearts,” we change just as drastically. Letting go of the past and holding onto the newness of life in Christ, we are called forth, from the mess we have made of things. We are called to walk in the newness of the day and let God establish His ways in us. We let Him draw us into new life, new thinking, new behaviors and sometimes from what we thought to be glorious into a completely overwhelming sense of His majesty and power. He now displays Himself in our humble lives.
He begins to work on the “new” canvas of our lives and hearts. We are drawn to His feet for our instruction and plans for our lives. Our lives, like the plants, will simply be here to bring glory to Him.
He promised to refine us like gold. Like the beautiful pre-dawn light, we have to “let go” and let His plans be established in us to become that gold.
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