Beautiful in its Time - Part 2
Last
week we looked down at the ground at the blooming crocus. This week we
look up high at the blossoming trees. Have you seen the sheen of red
maple blossoms kissing the treetops? From a distance you can see the
tiny, slightly burgundy red clusters, and up close you can see the
coating of pollen gracing your car/windshield/driveway, etc. Not a very
refreshing image.
However, God has made
everything beautiful in its time...in....its....time. Perhaps the maple
tree has something better to offer us than nuisance fuzzy pollen! :)
Fast forward to a hot summer day and you and your family are seeking a
spot of shade while at the ball field. That pollen laden maple tree's
leaves certainly looks beautiful now, don't they!? Enduring the here
and now for a rewarding future is worth the wait!
Trey's terrible diagnosis caused/still causes pain...a lot more pain than all the pollen everywhere for all time! Fill in your own story here, too. Yet we need to remember that God's timing is always best. Perhaps we have to wait a season, a year, a decade, a lifetime, or eternity to see it, but God's perfect righteousness and peace are indeed, beautiful in its time.
Trey's terrible diagnosis caused/still causes pain...a lot more pain than all the pollen everywhere for all time! Fill in your own story here, too. Yet we need to remember that God's timing is always best. Perhaps we have to wait a season, a year, a decade, a lifetime, or eternity to see it, but God's perfect righteousness and peace are indeed, beautiful in its time.
"No
discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however,
it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been
trained by it." Hebrews 12:11
